Siachen Glacier: Malik vows not to cede an inch of land

The country will not cede even an inch of its territory, Interior Minister Rehman Malik declared on Wednesday. Lashing out at Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Mian Nawaz Sharif for his remarks on Siachen Glacier, he said that the PML_N chief should retract his statement.
On Tuesday, Mian Nawaz Sharif visited the avalanche site and urged Pakistan and India to withdraw their troops from Siachen, adding that the first step should be taken by Pakistan.
Insisting that the country would not cede any of its territory, Malik said that there could be no negligence in protecting the area for which so many sacrifices had been rendered.
Talking to journalists after a meeting, he said that terrorists entered Pakistan from Afghanistan and conducted terrorist activities. "Maulan Fazalullah also took part in terrorists activities in the Mohmand Agency," he said. Malik said that the interior ministry had sent an invitation to India's home minister to visit Pakistan.
In the meeting, he was reported to have said that a high-powered jail reforms committee should be formed under the chair of the federal interior secretary. The committee, he said, should comprise provincial home secretaries and Inspectors-General of Police (IGPs).
He also called for installing security scanners in jails. The meeting was held to review domestic law and order and security situation, especially prison security.
The meeting was also attended by the Secretary of Interior, Additional Secretary of Interior, Provincial home secretaries, IGPs, IG Prisons and representatives of various law-enforcement agencies.
Malik said that prison staff's salary and pays and allowances should be brought at par with police. Police, he said, should guard jails. The National Police Academy would train 150-200 master trainers for training prison staff, he said.
The minister said that a quick reaction force would be stationed near jails and. Rangers and FC troops should be deployed at the Adiala Jail.
A financial assistance package and compensation would be provided to jail officials who sacrificed their lives or were crippled in the line of duty. All Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) cases would be heard inside prisons.
Rehman Malik said that NADRA would conduct a survey and scrutinise all prisoners and compile a database of inmates. He said that NOCs for jammers for prisons had been issued, adding that high-security prisons would be set up for high-profile prisoners.