Our Web Desk / AA
AT the time when Pakistan is accusing India of taking stern action against militants, its own forces have brutally killed more than 1800 home grown terrorists in different part of the country.
It has termed these terrorists as as ‘ violent against the state’ and ‘non-violent but anti-state’ and armed but not anti-state.
About 951 of the terrorists were killed in Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA), 455 in Sindh, 197 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 135 in Punjab, 68 in Balochistan and two in Gilgit Baltistan (GB).
Pakistan’s Coordinator for National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) Ihsan Ghani on Monday told media in ISLAMABAD that a total 1,808 terrorists had been killed and 5,611 arrested since the National Action Plan (NAP) was launched last year.
Ghani said majority of the terrorists were arrested in Sindh, KP and FATA where their number was 1665, 1572 and 1256 respectively.
He said 122,772 combing operations were carried out while 142,335 suspects were arrested.
Besides conducting 2,012,765 Stop and Search Operations, around 4,230 Intelligence Based Operations (IBOs) were carried out while 119,794 calls were received at Helpline 1717, he added.
The Coordinator said some 411 executions had been carried out under the NAP, including 380 in Punjab, 18 in Sindh, six in
KP, five in Balochistan.
With regard to curbing terrorist financing, the Coordinator said 498 first information reports (FIRs) were registered under Hawala Hundi (FIA) and 692 accused were arrested. As part of Anti-Money Laundering measures, the authorities concerned registered 230 FIRs and captured 341 persons while 126 accounts were also frozen.
He said proscribed organizations had been categorized with 43 as violent against the state, 12 as non-violent but anti-state and seven as armed but not anti-state.
On the issue of glorification of terrorists, he said, strict implementation was being made through Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Any violation was instantly reported to the quarters concerned and action was taken, he added.