ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Tuesday (Mar 5) it had begun a crackdown on Islamist militant groups, detaining 44 members of banned organisations ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Tuesday it had begun a crackdown on Islamist militant groups, detaining 44 members of banned organisations including close relatives of the leader of a group blamed for a deadly bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month.
In a further sign that tensions were easing, Pakistan's foreign ministry said a delegation would visit New Delhi next week to discuss an accord on Sikh pilgrims visiting holy sites in Pakistan. "We are investigating them and if we get more evidence, more proof against them, they will be proceeded against according to law and if we don’t get any proof their detention will end," Suleman said.
A Security Council vote is due to be held in mid-March. However, Pakistan's staunch ally China, a Security Council member, has blocked previous attempts by world powers to sanction the JeM chief.Many Pakistani groups and individuals are under U.N. sanctions, including the JeM, and Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group that carried out the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, in which 166 people were killed.
Pakistan has long used Islamist groups to pursue its aims in the region, but it has denied New Delhi's accusations it actively supports militants fighting Indian forces in India's part of Muslim-majority Kashmir. At a later stage the government may consider recruiting some of the militants into paramilitary forces or seek other ways to find them jobs and incorporate them into normal society, the officials said.
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