The Pakistan People's Party deplored the distinction between sectarian and non-sectarian militant outfits by the interior minister as 'deeply flawed, grievously offensive and extremely dangerous for the state and society.'
"The minister seems to be unaware that the Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) has been publicly calling for armed jihad in a neighbouring country and has been allowing its platform to be used by banned outfits," said PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar in a statement, here on Sunday.
He asked if the Minister wished to assert that proscribed organisations could freely assemble under the banner of DPC because the latter was not proscribed or if he wished to assert that calling for armed jihad in a neighbouring country by any outfit was state policy.
"It is atrocious to allege that the former President had soft corner for the DPC. When the DPC invited the PPP through late General Hameed Gul for participation in a moot ostensibly for a noble cause the then-President rejected the suggestion citing huge differences in their worldview," he said, citing that the PPP couldn't sit at the same podium with the DPC.
PPP's Senator said that to assert that banned sectarian outfits couldn't be equated with banned terrorist groups was unjustifiable because of the violence created by the takfeeri rhetoric of the sectarian groups.
"It only shows that two years down the line of fight against militancy the supposed leader of this fight is not even aware of who the real enemies of state and society are", Farhatullah Babar surprised.-PR