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Pakistan empowers army to strike on terror across border: Reports
UC News 21 Feb. 2017 16:10
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Pak PM Nawaz Sharif has empowered the Army to act against terrorists across the border, Dawn said
This was done after Pakistan obtained 'concrete evidence' that Afghan soil was used to launch the terror attack last Thursday in Sehwan
NEW DELHI: Has Pakistan's Prime Minister empowered the country's Army to act against terrorists across the border and 'wherever they might be'?
That's what the country's finance minister Ishaq Dar informed the Pakistani Senate yesterday, according to Dawn.
News reports from Saturday gave conflicting reports about Pakistani strikes on Afghan border areas. Some said Pakistan targeted alleged militant camps inside Afghanistan, while others said the camps were on not across the border areas.
Dar reportedly said yesterday that PM Nawaz Sharif empowered the Army to act against terrorists across the border after obtaining "concrete evidence that Afghan soil had been used to launch recent acts of terrorism in the country". The Prime Minister had authorised the Army "to take out terrorists wherever they might be."
The minister was talking about last Thursday's suicide terror attack on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar that killed 88 people. Immediately after the bombing in Sindh province, Pakistan claimed the attack was planned in militant sanctuaries in Afghanistan.
The minister reportedly also said "it had been established beyond doubt that foreign soil had been used to orchestrate the two latest attacks - in Lahore and in Hayatabad" in Pakistan. The country forwarded names of 76 terrorists to Afghanistan, Dar added. The Pakistan army also summoned Afghan diplomats to its headquarters, demanding action against Afghanistan-based militants involved in carrying out attacks in Pakistan, The News International reported.
At the time Dar made these statements he appeared unaware that Afghanistan had hit back against Pakistani belligerence by giving it a list of 85 Taliban and Haqqani network militants and their 32 hideouts in Pakistan.
There have been at least eight terror attacks this month, in which more than 100 people have died, PTI reported.
UC News 21 Feb. 2017 16:10
Highlights
Pak PM Nawaz Sharif has empowered the Army to act against terrorists across the border, Dawn said
This was done after Pakistan obtained 'concrete evidence' that Afghan soil was used to launch the terror attack last Thursday in Sehwan
NEW DELHI: Has Pakistan's Prime Minister empowered the country's Army to act against terrorists across the border and 'wherever they might be'?
That's what the country's finance minister Ishaq Dar informed the Pakistani Senate yesterday, according to Dawn.
News reports from Saturday gave conflicting reports about Pakistani strikes on Afghan border areas. Some said Pakistan targeted alleged militant camps inside Afghanistan, while others said the camps were on not across the border areas.
Dar reportedly said yesterday that PM Nawaz Sharif empowered the Army to act against terrorists across the border after obtaining "concrete evidence that Afghan soil had been used to launch recent acts of terrorism in the country". The Prime Minister had authorised the Army "to take out terrorists wherever they might be."
The minister was talking about last Thursday's suicide terror attack on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar that killed 88 people. Immediately after the bombing in Sindh province, Pakistan claimed the attack was planned in militant sanctuaries in Afghanistan.
The minister reportedly also said "it had been established beyond doubt that foreign soil had been used to orchestrate the two latest attacks - in Lahore and in Hayatabad" in Pakistan. The country forwarded names of 76 terrorists to Afghanistan, Dar added. The Pakistan army also summoned Afghan diplomats to its headquarters, demanding action against Afghanistan-based militants involved in carrying out attacks in Pakistan, The News International reported.
At the time Dar made these statements he appeared unaware that Afghanistan had hit back against Pakistani belligerence by giving it a list of 85 Taliban and Haqqani network militants and their 32 hideouts in Pakistan.
There have been at least eight terror attacks this month, in which more than 100 people have died, PTI reported.
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