ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that terrorism and extremism is cancerous and no difference would be made between terrorists and their facilitators.
In a meeting held in Islamabad on Monday to review the anti-terrorism strategy, the prime minister said that there would be a decisive war against terrorists.
“There will be a decisive war against terrorists now who were responsible for attacking the Hazara town, Peshawar church and elsewhere,” Sharif said.
Sharif said that those who spilled blood in Peshawar and Quetta would not be spared.
The prime minister said that one Zarb-e-Azb is being targeting terrorists in tribal areas and other would be against the enemy hiding in urban and rural areas.
A proposal relating to the establishment of special military courts was also considered during the meeting for conducting speedy trials of terrorists.
The meeting was attended among others by the federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the finance minister Ishaq Dar, Abdul Qadir Baloch, prime minister’s special assistant Khawaja Zaheer Ahmad, law secretary barrister Zafarullah and the attorney general Salman Aslam Butt.
Earlier in the day, the prime minister directed the attorney general and his legal team to pursue the cases of terrorism on fast-track basis, according to a government spokesman.
The spokesman said that the prime minister also directed that all out efforts should be made to vacate the stay orders against death sentences.
