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“Malik claims to have proof of Daish’s presence”

Former interior minister Rehman Malik claimed on Wednesday that he had documentary proofs concerning the presence of the Daesh militant cluster in Pakistan.

Talking to Dawn, he aforementioned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ought to sensitise the international community concerning the speedy penetration of Daesh into many countries and use the forum of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation for fitting of a world conference for sharing data concerning the activities of the cluster.

Mr. Sharif was in Katmandu, Nepal, to attend the SAARC summit conference at that time.

He said he has solid proofs that Daish has established its contacts with the Tehreek-i-Taliban and it's quite probable that one of the Taleban leaders might soon be named as its chief in Pakistan. He said once asked concerning the documents he possessed he would make them public in a few days.

He expressed disappointment over the PML-N government’s response to the threat and aforesaid it had been paying no heed to trace down the Daish terrorists within the country.

He said that instead of remaining in a very state of denial, the government ought to take serious action before Daish spreads like Talibanisation did and pushes the country into another section of coercion.

Mr. Malik further said the country had already suffered lots as thousands of youngsters, men, girls and troops had lost their lives in terrorist attacks.

He wants the government to take the state into confidence on actions it had taken once reports concerning presence of Daish’s flags and banners emerged in numerous components of the country.

The former interior minister urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to line up a task force to stop Daish from taking root within the country.

He recalled that once he had talked concerning the presence of Punjabi Taliban but people ridiculed him, however later it had been testified that it was a reality and it had links with the TTP.

It is true that Abu-Al-Baghdadi senior leader of Iraq and Syrian militant’s organization, ISIS (DAESH), has announced to unroll his huge network in Southern Asia including Pakistan. Add to this he also said Pakistan, Iraq, China and India will also be investigated. He asked all of the Muslims of the world to migrate towards Iraq and Syria and help the militants to assemble and raise a pure Islamic state. There is no God-fearing deed than Jihad to do in the Holy month of Ramadan (Ramzan).

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