Senator Rehman Malik seeks compact national plan for security

Newswire

Islamabad: Chairman Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR) and former Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik said this week that a doable and a compre­hensive national plan is need of the hour to cope with the escalating secu­rity threats after the ongoing unrest in Afghanistan.
He chaired and addressed a seminar organized by Center for Global and Strategic Studies for its interns who visited the Institute of Research and Reforms (IRR). The seminar was at­tended by a large number of students led by Dr. Muhammad Omar Hayat, Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bahria University and management of CGSS.

Senator Malik said that regionally, ge­ographically, and politically Pakistan is an important country in the world, and being a nuclear power, it has an impor­tant place in the international commu­nity particularly among Islamic coun­tries. He said that Pakistan has always played an important and positive role in world peace and fought the war on terror along with US. He said that the development of any country depends on its law and order situation.

He said that unfortunately, we have an enemy in the shape of a neighbor that has always wanted destabilization of Pakistan. He said that India has a hand in deteriorating Pakistan’s inter­nal security situation and is involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan for which it is using Afghan soil. He said that India’s involvement in terrorism in Pakistan was proved from the arrest of RAW agent Kulbhushan Jadhav who has confessed his country’s involve­ment in fuelling sectarianism and eth­nicity in Pakistan.

He said that there is a strong nexus between Indian Agency RAW and Af­ghan NDS against Pakistan carrying and fuelling anti-state activities and acts of terrorism in various parts of the country. India is spreading anti-Paki­stan propaganda in every international forum and politically influenced FATF against Pakistan, he added.

Rehman Malik who is the Chairman IRR also said that Pakistan is facing se­rious threats of violent extremism, sec­tarianism, terrorism, militancy, and external interference which have ad­versely affected our economic stabil­ity, progress, and social harmony. He said that Pakistan was pushed into the war on terror by US and in last twen­ty years it continued the single demand of ‘Do More’. He said that today when it has withdrawn its forces from Afghan­istan leaving behind a huge mess, yet it is asking Pakistan for ‘Do More’. He said that extremism in the Pakistan region started during the war between the So­viet Union and Afghanistan causing in­ternal security threats. Thousands of Jihadis landed in Pakistan to fight the Soviet Union and were left with noth­ing to do after the war, he said.

Malik said that the same is being rep­licated today as once again, Afghani­stan is advancing towards the stone ages with the unending conflict with no gain. He said that the Afghan Tali­ban are picking up more strength and the march towards Kabul has started and it is very alarming and the world needs to halt further bloodshed of in­nocent Afghans.

The former Interior Minister said that the world knows who created the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS and who are suffering for their creation. He said that our foreign policy has failed as “we are suffering from international isolation. We faced isolation in FATF and failed to bring a resolution in UNGA against the lawless action of Indian PM Narendra Modi of scrapping the special status of Kashmir. He said that United Nations and other international organizations are monopolized by powerful coun­tries and they veto any issue when­ever they want. He said that UN is ne­glecting Indian Forces unprecedented brutalities in Indian Illegally Occupied Kashmir and Modi’s crimes against hu­manity.

He said that the situation in Afghani­stan will have implications on Pakistan and the government should immedi­ately convene a joint sitting of the par­liament to devise a doable, strategize, and comprehensive national plan. He said that India is not in favor of peace in Afghanistan and is using Afghani­stan soil and intelligence agency RAW against Pakistan. He said that peace in Afghanistan means peace in Pakistan and that is why Pakistan has always strived for a peaceful and developed Afghanistan.