Pakistan has to take the war on terror to extremists' doorsteps because it cannot be won on defensive, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday. "We have to dig the faceless terrorist out of his hiding, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge," Gilani said while addressing a ceremony to mark the graduation of policewomen in a crisis response course conducted by the Interior Ministry in collaboration with the United States.
He said the war on terror was Pakistan's own war, which it was fighting in an unprecedented way. "It is a dire need of the time to confront terror threats before they emerge," he said. "We are not being attacked by any [foreign] military or a known army. Our enemy lurks silently within our society. This is our own war," he said.
Gilani said there was a need to be vigilant all the time and try to recognise the enemy.
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