Senate Body Lauds LEAs' Efforts For Restoring Peace In Balochistan

Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A. Rehman Malik Wednesday lauded the efforts of the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) for restoring peace and countering terrorism in Balochistan.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Nov, 2018 ) :Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Senator A. Rehman Malik Wednesday lauded the efforts of the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) for restoring peace and countering terrorism in Balochistan.

The body also paid rich tribute to the martyrs of Frontier Constabulary (FC) Balochistan and offered fateha for all the martyrs of the FC Balochistan and other Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), said a press release here.

The Committee was presided over by Senator Rehman Malik at Parliament House, which was also attended by other senators including Javed Abbasi, Rana Maqbool, Kalsoom Perven, Anwar ul Haq Kakar, Sarfraz Ahmad Bughti, Mian Atique Shaikh, Kuhda Babar, Muhammad Asad Ali Khan Junejo and Chudhary Tanveer Khan.

Minister of State for Interior Sheheryar Afridi, Secretary Ministry of Interior, IG (FC), Balochistan and senior officers of the ministry and attached departments were also present during the meeting.

Commending the Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa's role in restoring the peace and stability across the country particularly Balochistan, Senator A. Rehman Malik said the nation stood by Pakistan Army in its war against terrorism and anti-state elements.

He said that FC Balochistan was playing incredible role in maintaining peace since it had sacrificed a number of its officers and personnel, fighting terrorism in Balochistan.

Malik said that the involvement of Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Afghan intelligence agency in spreading terrorism in Balochistan was no secret anymore adding that none but Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself had confessed his government involvement in Balochistan.

He said that the LEAs and people of Balochistan would not let the country's enemies to succeed in their nefarious aims.

Senator Rehman Malik informed the committee that he had taken a serious notice on the scam of hacking of banking data of the customers from Pakistani banks for which he had directed Ministry of Interior, State Bank of Pakistan and FIA to submit the detail reports to the committee on the matter within next ten days.

Inspector General FC Balochistan Major General Nadeem Anjum briefed the Committee about organizational structure, achievements, budgetary provisions for enhancing the capacity buildings, details of new and old check posts and steps taken for the welfare of FC Staff.

He also apprised the committee about packages for Shuhada.

Major General Nadeem Anjum said that FC Balochistan was providing the security to almost 70 percent of the populace in the province and covering a vast area which included far hilly areas as well.

He said that Hazara Community was the Primary target of the terrorists in the past but now situation was improved. He apprised the Committee that tangible steps had been taken to provide security to Hazara Community in Balochistan and the pilgrims (Zaireens) travelling to Iran were given proper security.

Nadeem said the number of pilgrims had increased from 15,000 to 150,000 and no casualty was reported.

He gave a detailed overview of the links between non-state actors and the way the ideological narrative and the sub nationalist narrative were used to destabilise Balochistan.

He further informed that besides, maintaining law and order in the province, the FC was running nearly one hundred schools from its own salaries and free healthcare was being provided to the people.

Senator Rehman Malik said that evil designs of the enemies have been defeated by the collective efforts of people of Balochistan and the LEAs.

The Committee called for strengthening FC by increasing its budget and fully equipping it with modern budgets and a helicopter.

Chairman Committee also asked for separate housing scheme for FC Balochistan particularly for the families of martyrs.

Inspector General FC told the Committee that FC has built 77 schools in Balochistan in which 24,500 students are studying and 12 hostels are built to provide facilities to the poor children. He said that we have built more than 60 medical centers in the province which treats 260,000 patients annually.

In meantime, the Chairman Committee directed the Ministry of Interior to immediately release the pending funds of FC Balochistan.

Minister of State for Interior Sheheryar Afridi said that practical steps needed to be taken and collective efforts were required to strengthen institutions and LEAs.

He said that a number of packages were announced in the past but unfortunately nothing was achieved practically.

At the end of meeting, Senator A. Rehman Malik moved a resolution to laud the efforts of FC, which was also unanimously passed by the committee.

To underline the importance of Balochistan, Senator Mir Sarfaraz Bugti and Senator Anwar ul Haq Kakar were specially invited to the meeting.