Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters have not behaved as expected after coming out of jails, contrary to the agreement with the government.
Speaking at Thursday's meeting of the Standing Committee on Interior of the Upper House of Parliament (Senate), the Federal Interior Minister said: 'After the Taliban came out of Pakistan's jails, we expected that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan would behave well. Our guess was something else. However, they did not behave like this. The incidents of terrorism started to increase from here.'
However, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi refrained from revealing the details of the agreement between the TTP and the government of Pakistan, saying that 'the matter will take a political nature.'
During the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, an agreement between Islamabad and the TTP resulted in a certain number of Pakistani Taliban fighters being allowed to come to Pakistan from Afghanistan and released from Pakistani jails.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeatedly said that the deal was aimed at bringing Pakistani Taliban fighters back into the mainstream and rehabilitating them as useful members of society.
Committee member Senator Irfan Siddiqui asked Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi: 'Did the terrorists come from Afghanistan or did they gather here?'
To this, Mohsin Naqvi replied that the terrorists of both Afghanistan and Pakistan became active after coming together. And most of the terrorists of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan are Pakistani citizens.
Senator Irfan Siddiqui questioned the Interior Minister on this issue and said, 'How many Taliban have gone back? What are the goals of commitment stability? In which areas will it start or has it already started?'
The Federal Minister of Interior said: 'Operation has not started. That matter reached the media which did not happen. This decision was taken to implement the six points of the National Action Plan, which everyone agrees on.
'It (the operation) was named, there was no talk of specific areas and there was no talk of something like that happening in the country. This decision was made to re-implement the National Action Plan.
On this, Senator Irfan Siddiqui said that the media cannot be held responsible because the federal minister held a press conference on this issue in which this operation was called by the same name.
On this, the interior minister said, 'We ourselves are worried about what happened. The discussion was something else, the talk was something else.'
Interior Secretary Muhammad Khurram Agha told the committee that a JIT was formed regarding the incident of attack on Chinese residents in Bisham and 11 people were arrested in this connection.
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In March this year, five Chinese engineers lost their lives in a suicide attack on a bus in Besham area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The government of Pakistan had accused that the territory of Afghanistan was used in the attack, but the Afghan government rejected it and said that it is not right to involve their country in this matter.
In the meeting presided over by the chairman of the committee, Faisal Saleem Rehman, Senator Palusha Khan raised the question: 'How many people involved in the recent attacks have been caught?'
Senator Irfan Siddiqui said 'Chinese are part of our economy and many things. Only the Chinese are being targeted, there are motives behind it to spoil our relations with China.
Senator Samina Mumtaz said that bomb blasts will continue until no one is punished.
Senator Umar Farooq told the committee that he was attacked twice.
“Go to the check post is nothing but disrespect,” he said.
Senator Naseema Ehsan said that her house was attacked a month and a half ago.
“We get calls every day. We cannot leave our house. The security officials say you should reach home by three o'clock. We have not received any response from the province either.'
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, while talking about bandits in the Kacha area in Sindh province, said that the governments of Sindh and Punjab are conducting operations in the Kacha area, which is led by the Sindh government, while the Rangers are also helping them. are The Main Super Highway is now safer than it was a month and a half ago.'
According to the details provided by the Pakistan Coast Guard to Independent Urdu, from January 2023 last year to July this year, 1411 Pakistanis were arrested illegally leaving the country, while 130 foreign residents were arrested. Among them, a large number of people from Afghanistan, Iran and Nigeria were included.
