[Geo News] Director General (DG) ISPR, Maj Gen Athar Abbas has said there are some groups of Taliban which are not under the control of Maulana Sufi Muhammad and Maulana Fazlullah and these groups are creating problems. Maj Gen Athar Abbas said this in an interview with a British news agency here Sunday. He held government and army was trying its best to abide by peace deal hoping certain problems related to peace accord would be sorted out and the militants would lay down their arms and stop the war.
Dispelling the fears about Taliban attack on Islamabad he said it was impossible for a group of 200 hundreds Taliban which had come from Swat to Bunir to do so. It was doubtless to say Bunir was located within the radius of 100 miles but a threat is adjudged through ability and potential rather than distance, he added. Law enforcement agencies personnel were present in Islamabad in large number and it was ridiculous to say that Taliban were posing any threat to Islamabad. There were not more than 50 Taliban in district Bunir who were recruited by Taliban of Swat and they had left them behind after their pull out from Bunir, he remarked. They have to lay down their arms after the accord, he observed. Security forces would expel them if they continued to create problems, he underlined.
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