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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Malik calls for special NA session on terrorism
* Interior minister says TTP wants to destabilise country
By Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rahman Malik, on Tuesday, called for a special session of parliament to expose the real hands behind the terror activities in country following the volleys of personal attacks and criticism on him and his ministry over the growing wave of terrorism and insecure environment in the country when National Assembly met to take up the demands in grants of Interior Ministry.
“I will request the chair to convene such a session to inform parliament about the conspiracies being hatched to destabilise the country. It is the right of parliament to know who is doing what,” Rehman emphatically demanded. During the lengthy debate on the ministry’s demands, the oppositions parties, particularly the PML-N, kept attacking Malik and demanded his resignation over the unabated spree of target killings in Karachi.
While appealing for unity against the menace of terrorism in his entire speech, Malik lost the patient at the end and hit back at the PML-N, saying, “I will go public against them if they continued targeting my leadership.” The minister said that the country faced a grave threat from Talbanisation which, unfortunately, had not been taken as seriously as it should have been. “I will repeat it again and again that Tehreek-e-Talban Pakistan (TTP) wants to destabilise the country and wants it to disintegrate,” Malik contended. He said terrorism was a cancer for the country, which needed to be operated upon with unity while rising above politics. The minister added that the institutions that were arms and strength of the nation should not be criticised.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk