Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik, who is currently in Singapore on a short visit to attend the 78th Interpol Ministerial Meeting being held in Singapore, called on Singapore's Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugan. The Minister explained that terrorism has a direct relationship with drug trafficking, money laundering engineered through cyber crime. Pakistan at present is experiencing a touch of these four crimes.
He said Pakistan needs the support of world community to work out a strategy to handle these crimes which in turn can combat terrorism. On the situation in Pakistan the Minister explained that the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is very porous and it is very difficult to conttrol drug and human smuggling Some 40,000 to 50,000 people cross border and drugs worth $5 billion pass annually into Pakistan from Afghanistan. In addition to these Pakistan's military operations in the tribal areas are leading to reactions both from al Qaeda and Taliban which he said are a by-product of the jihad of 1980s against Soviet Union.-PR