| Isn't it about time? I started mine years ago. And there haven't been four assassination attempts against me... |
 The government has started compiling lists of militants and extremists, which will contain information about the individual and his/her organisation, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.
| Of course, it being Pakland, they're gonna have to have the census bureau do it... |
"The government has asked all security agencies of the country to start preparing the lists," sources added. "The government made the decision to keep a complete profile of militants working for different militant organisations including those that are part and parcel of the United Jihad Council," they said.
| To include Lashkar e-Taiba? Want to bet they're not on the list, even though they're part of the UJC? |
The lists' purpose was for the government to keep track of militants across the country and to pre-empt terrorist activities in Pakistan, they added. "Another reason for the collection of the data was that the government wanted to maintain lists of militants who had left their parent militant organisations and had formed small militant groups," sources said. Militants who had formed their own small militant groups were more active in terrorist activities, sources said, claiming that such militants were behind terrorist activities within the country including the suicide attacks on President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
| And they're just now getting around to it? Well, I guess they can get a head start on the list by using the payroll list... |
Sources said this was the second time that the government had started such an exercise after the 9/11 incident.
| I guess the magnitude of the task was pretty daunting, wasn't it? |
"The government will be able to keep an eye on militants and militant activities after the lists' preparation," sources added. Security agencies would focus on militants who had parted ways from banned militant organisations including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sihaba, Harkat Jihad-e-Islami al-Alami, Jamiatul Ansar, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Sipah-e-Muhammad and Khudamul Furqan, they added. |
Law-enforcement agencies have released Maulana Abdul Jabbar, chief of the banned Khudamul Furqan, after almost three years in detention. Jabbar was arrested with his close aides on charges of attacking President Musharraf on December 14, 2003 in Rawalpindi. Jabbar was released recently after a long detention, sources told Daily Times here on Sunday. The sources said that Khudamul Furqan militants were suspected to be behind terrorist attacks on churches in Pakistan. Maulana Jabbar started his militant activities by joining Harkatul Ansar, headed by Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, in the early 1980s and stayed in Afghanistan till the fall of the Taliban government there. He later joined the Jaish-e-Muhammad formed by Maulana Masood Azhar, but after developing differences with Azhar, Jabbar formed the Khudamul Furqan. The sources said Jabbar was an expert in Afghan affairs, heading the Afghan cell of each militant group he was in, and maintained close contacts with Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders.