Malik against inviting rebels to talk show
Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said the process of dialogue with disgruntled Baloch leaders has been started.
Talking to reporters after visiting offices of the National Database and Registration Authority on Wednesday, he appealed to the media not to invite rebel leaders to their talk shows. The minister said propaganda was being spread on the issue of missing persons of Balochistan.
He said Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani had sent a list of 930 ‘missing persons’, but it had been found after investigations that only 48 of them were actually missing.
Mr Malik said he would send two officials to the camp set up here by relatives of missing persons to tally their figures with the interior ministry’s list.
About the killing of 16 passengers in Kohistan on Tuesday, he said the place from where the attackers had come had been pinpointed and investigation was under way.
He said 20 militants were involved in the attack.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, while presiding over a cabinet meeting, asked Mr Malik to immediately go to Gilgit-Baltistan and help the administration control the law and order situation in the aftermath of the Kohistan attack. The cabinet condemned the incident in which 18 people were shot dead.
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