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May 26, 2011
PTI
Islamabad
- Pakistani security and rescue personnel search through rubble for victims following a suicide bomb attack on a police Criminal Investigation Department building in Peshawar – AFP.
- The Pakistan government on Wednesday pledged to eliminate militants and destroy terrorist hideouts even as it dismissed fears about the safety of its nuclear assets in the wake of a string of high-profile terror attacks targeting the military.
- The Defence Committee of the Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani this evening, decided that defence and law enforcement agencies would be ‘authorised to use all means necessary to eliminate terrorists and militants’.Describing national security as a ‘foremost priority’, the committee decided that ‘all arms of the government will ensure that terrorist hideouts will be destroyed using all appropriate means.’Will he will, ever, authorize the elimination of L-e-T, J-e-M, the socalled Rogue elements of ISI and Pakistani Army?After sheltering, training, arming and exporting Terrorists and when its whole economy is dependent on the revenues it earns from those activities, can Pakistan ever afford to lose them, overnight?And like it lost control of its key naval-air base to the Pakistani Taliban, for 16 hours, it might very well lose control of its nuclear assets.Full story at,
