(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said foolproof security arrangements were being made including deployment of army units to maintain law and order.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has discounted reports that the federal government was planning to arrest PTI chief Imran Khan or other party leaders or activists ahead of party’s November 30 gathering in Islamabad.
He however said “foolproof” security arrangements were being made including deployment of army units to maintain law and order and protect sensitive state institutions while over 9000 FC personnel would be called out along with a strong police force.
Chaudhry Nisar said warrants against Imran Khan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister and others have been issued by a court and hoped that Imran would submit to the judicial process to prove his claim that he stands for the rule of law. The government has no intention to withdraw the cases he added.
In an interview to The News the minister said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will take a decision on resumption of talks with the PTI.
“It is the PM who will take the final decision on the possibility of talks as the government is inclined to resume negotiations. But again it also depends on the other party’s seriousness” he said.
On Imran’s threat that it would become difficult for the government to continue after November 30 the minister said: “Let us see who will stay after November 30” and added that Imran must see the recording of his own speeches and threats in the last three months.
The minister dispelled the impression that the government was under pressure or under threat from the PTI. “Pressure is on Imran and not on the government. It is he who had failed to bring a million people on August 14 when Dr Tahirul Qadri was also with him. Now he is on his own” Nisar observed.
“We have all seen his strength on August 14. Now let us see how many will come to Islamabad in the absence of Dr Tahirul Qadri” he added.
The minister also denied that Dr Tahirul Qadri had called off his ‘dharna’ under any ‘deal’ with the government. “It was his own decision as after several weeks he realised that there is no light at the end of the tunnel.”
On the speculations about the presence of militant group ISIS in Pakistan the minister while ruling out its organisational presence admitted that it could be possible that some other militant groups or their splinter factions were using its name.
He also claimed that due to Operation Zarb-e-Azb which had now been expanded to the Khyber Agency and parts of Balochistan the militants were losing the capacity to form any new group.
He said the spillover of North Waziristan had not hit Karachi yet but there were some other problems there particularly about the capacity building of the police. -newskhaleejtimes.com
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