(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Wednesday that the government will ensure a ban on all proscribed organisations mentioned in the blacklist of the United Nations within the next few days.
"There is some confusion regarding the list of banned outfits but I want to make it clear that the government will ban all the proscribed organisations mentioned in the blacklist of the United Nations, as Pakistan is a signatory of the UN," said the minister, while speaking on the floor of the National Assembly on Wednesday.
Nisar underscored that the government would not ban any organisation under pressure from any country, including the United States and India. He, however, said Pakistan would fulfil its obligations as a signatory to the United Nations conventions, adding that such a step would be in the country's favour. He said banned outfits would not be allowed to operate by changing their names.
Nisar also said that military courts were set up by the government after support from all parliamentary parties at the all parties conference in the wake of the Peshawar school attack. He clarified that only those who had taken up arms against the state are being hanged.
The minister said the government had succeeded in verifying 30 million Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) and was in the process of verifying yet another 100 million SIMs. He added that SIMs verification would be helpful in countering terrorism. Nisar said told the House that 20 terrorism-related cases have so far been sent to the military courts.
He said that 20 cases have been forwarded to the General Headquarters for subsequent trial in the military courts, which have been set up under the National Action Plan devised after Peshawar school massacre in December last year.
He said that 12 other terrorism-related cases have also been identified by the government which would be sent to the military courts after evaluation. The interior minister said that the federal government is determined to rid the country of terrorism, adding the army is successfully carrying out operation Zarb-e-Azb for the last eight months. He also informed the House that 22 condemned prisoners have been sent to gallows since the moratorium on death sentences was lifted following Peshawar attack.
Nisar said that the government was working proactively to monitor activities of the banned outfits operating under different names in the country.
Talking about terror financing, he said that a special cell has been created to monitor terror financing adding the cell has been working in coordination with different state institutions including the State Bank of Pakistan.
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