Number of those leaving Pakistan to join Daesh not more than hundred: Sanaullah
Daesh will not be allowed to establish its roots in Pakistan, the Punjab Law Minister said.
FAISALABAD (Web Desk) – Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday said that number of Pakistanis who have left the country to join the terrorist group Daesh is not more than hundred, Dunya News reported.
This doesn’t mean that Daesh, also known as Islamic State, exists in Pakistan, he told reported in Faisalabad.
The minister said that Pakistani security forces are working hard to keep such elements at bay.
He said that Daesh will not be allowed to establish its roots in Pakistan.
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Responding to a question regarding opposition leader Khurshid Shah’s remarks, Rana Sanaullah said that if the opposition leader has any list regarding Daesh recruitments, he should provide it to the government.
Authorities in South Asia are concerned about the rise of the Daesh group in a region already beset by home-grown insurgencies fighting to topple local governments.
The Pakistani government says that Islamic State, a group founded in Syria and Iraq in 2013, does not have a credible presence in the country.
Several smaller militant groups and factions of the Pakistani Taliban have, however, pledged allegiance to Islamic State and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi since 2014.
In a shocking revelation today, a suspected terrorist Kamran Gujjar, who was arrested from Punjab, had revealed during the investigation that his wife and sister-in-law are working in Karachi for Daesh.
He said that both are experts in brainwashing and they are collecting funds for the terrorist organization in the name of a welfare organisation.
Security agencies have started conducting raids in different parts of the metropolis to arrested members of the group.
To a question, Rana Sanaullah said that corruption stories used to surface on daily-basis in PPP’s tenure but there is no single allegation of corruption against the ruling PML-N.
Later, the minister inaugurated a chowk named after Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) first martyred female pilot Maryam Mukhtiar.
