ISLAMABAD – The Senate Standing Committee on Interior claimed around 49,000 suspects to have been arrested in crackdowns against militants under the National Action Plan.
Further, the NACTA national coordinator said, “137 executions have been carried out so far in the country after moratorium was lifted by Premier Sharif.” Hamid upheld that the government has also put names of 1,135 people involved in sectarian rifts.
The meeting was chaired by Senator Rehman Malik. Punjab has formed a special force where 6,500 commandos have been trained by the military in Punjab.
Balochistan and Sindh are in the process of training of 1,000 commandos each and 760 commandos, he said.
“Special force consists of 1,000 commandos is being established in ICT and will cost Rs1 billion,” Hamid said, adding the summary has already been dispatched to the premier.
Similarly, 260,000 arms licenses have been questioned in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 10, 000 licenses in Punjab and 3,000 in Sindh.
“Either these licenses would be cancelled or reviewed,” Hamid added.
As part of its National Action Plan to defeat terrorism, the government in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre launched a crackdown on proscribed organizations and clamped down on financers of sectarian and terrorist networks operating in Pakistan.
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