LAHORE: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said that Afghanistan should either put terrorists operating from its soil on trial or hand them over to Pakistan where they have been involved in attacking security forces.
The demand came as an army officer and a jawan embraced martyrdom during an intelligence based operation in Peshawar in which five terrorists were also killed on Saturday.
Talking to media in Lahore today, the minister said that terror elements affiliated with the banned TTP were involved in the suicide attack on Chinese engineers in Besham in which five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed. He said Pakistan has all the evidence about the terrorists operating from Afghanistan and have shared them with Kabul.
The minister said that Pakistan wants cordial relations with Afghanistan but Kabul should not allow terror groups to operate form its soil and carry out its activities against Pakistan.
He also said that the government had enhanced security on its borders, adding some elements were hell bent on sabotaging peace in Pakistan and disrupt work on CPEC projects. He said Pakistan was taking stringent steps to ensure the security of Chinese nationals working on different projects in Pakistan.
Operation against terrorists
In an intelligence-based operation in Hassankhel area of Peshawar on Sunday, an army officer and a jawan were martyred while five wanted terrorists were killed, said the ISPR in a statement in Rawalpindi. The martyrs were identified as Capt Hussain Jehngir, resident of Rahim Yar Khan, and Havaldar Hassanullah, resident of Karal, Khyber pakhtunkhwa.
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