The Punjabi Taliban are the enemies of Pakistan and they should be dealt with accordingly, Punjab Governor Latif Khosa said on Monday.
They are the enemies of Islam and humanity,” Khosa told a news conference at the Governor’s House.
Suicide attacks were forbidden in Islam, he said. However, the governor stopped short while supporting military action against the strongholds of the Taliban in Punjab.
Separately, Khosa said that no political force was in favour of “derailing democracy”, adding that a strong political system would guarantee a strong economy.
“I don’t think any political force believes in third-party takeovers. No political force wants that democracy should be derailed,” he said.
The governor said that the recent boiling political atmosphere in the wake of the elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir would subside after the success of the Pakistan People’s Party’s.
“I understand that temperature can rise when such events take place,” he said in indirect reference to the blame-game between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari. “The tolerance level of Zardari is quite high,” Khosa said, suggesting that whatever Nawaz was saying against the PPP leader had little effect on him.
The governor showed his unease at the way Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was running the affairs of the government. “I will continue to remind him that he is bound by law to keep the governor informed about administrative decisions,” Khosa said.
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