| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| Punjab, Balochistan to share banned militant outfits’ data |
| 2021-02-11 |
| [Dawn] In a marathon meeting here on Monday the counter terrorism departments of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... agreed to share ’secret data and intelligence’ of various banned bully boy organizations and networks operating in Punjab. Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan, accompanied by the province’s Inspector General of Police Rai Tahir, visited the Punjab CTD headquarters here on Monday and held a meeting with its head, DIG Jawwad Qamar and other senior coppers. During the meeting, both sides also agreed to impart training to the officers of the Balochistan CTD to make the province a safer place for its people as the department had busted various bully boy networks in Punjab where militancy was rampant some years back. An official privy to the development told Dawn, CTD DIG Jawwad Qamar shared with the visiting delegation the ’success story’ of the department in Punjab, particularly under Mr Rai. He told Mr Kamal that Punjab had almost been cleared of local terrorist outfit. "There has been no incident of sectarian terrorism in Punjab in the last four years," he said, adding that in the year 2020 no suicide kaboom was reported and it was a landmark after 13 years of militancy wave in Pakistain, particularly in Punjab. "Punjab has reported a 14 times decrease in terrorism incidents in 2020 as compared to the figures of 2014", Mr Jawaad told the meeting. No doubt all the incidents involving the same individuals have been reclassified as gang-related activity. He said the Punjab CTD had so far arrested 2,000 hardcore faceless myrmidons in the last five years and of them 65 percent had been convicted by the anti-terrorism courts (ATCs).The process is the punishment, right? He also briefed the Balochistan CM that the hate speech had been a prime source of sectarian violence and a big challenge for the Punjab CTD."We curbed hate speech by blocking 4,000 social media sites and pages through the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority", Mr Qamar told the meeting. He also briefed the Balochistan chief minister about the structure and functions of Punjab CTD. The official said the CM appreciated achievements in controlling militancy and sectarianism in Punjab and resolved to strengthen the CTD in Balochistan on the same lines. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |