PM says maintaining law and order in Quetta not difficult

QUETTA: Prime Minister, Nazwaz Sharif has directed officials from law enforcement agencies to arrest individuals behind the Hazara town massacre.

In the wake of recent terrorist acts, Prime Minister Sharif visited Quetta on Tuesday and chaired a high-level meeting on the security situation in the province. The prime minister stressed on intelligence agencies to increase coordination and called upon law enforcement agencies to implement the law and order policy.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, Prime Minister Sharif said that both the federal and provincial governments had decided that terrorism would no longer be tolerated. “This (terrorism) is not acceptable for the provincial or federal governments,” Sharif said

The prime minister added that he had directed the ISI and IB to make Sunday's bombing a test case and act against those responsible.

Mr Shairf said the new provincial government and law enforcement were working diligently and if they continued on this path, terrorism and target killing in the province would no longer exist. “It is not difficult to control law and order in Quetta which is a city of 20 markets and streets.”

Prime Minister Sharif also met with members of the Hazara community.

The prime minister was accompanied by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Information Minister Parvez Rasheed, Pashtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai and National Party senior leader Mir Hasil Khan Bezinjo