This refers June 06 media report pertaining to Interior Minister, Rahman Malik's airy-fairy, untenable and truth deficit statement over presence of Taliban Shura in Quetta, law and order situation in Balochistan, Kharotabad incident, PPP's policies and issue of targeted killings in Karachi.
While dispelling the general impression about the presence of Taliban Shura in Quetta, Rahman Malik asserts that "Action was taken for more than 30 times on rumours in this regard, with no outcome". May I remind Rehman Malik that action was taken for more than 300 times by our security and intelligence agencies to locate Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, with "no outcome", yet the Americans found him cozily nestled in a fortified safe abode.
So also, action has been taken for more than 3,000 times to identify and nab target killers in Karachi, Quetta and elsewhere in the country, with no outcome and the targeted killings go on unabated, with vengeance.
Rehman Malik then went on to make the most bizarre and morbidly hilarious statement with regards to law and order in Balochistan that "there has been an improvement in the law and order situation in the province than past years". No one except someone irreversibly addicted to hash and pot smoking, would believe Malik, over the issue, period.
About the conduct of his PPP, Malik had the audacity to declare that "we are political people who believe in resolving the matters through dialogue". What a blatant lie, indeed. Malik truthfully should have stated instead that "we are political people who believe in prolonging resolution of matters through manipulations and crooked means".
Rahman Malik, while talking about the "game of power", being played out in Karachi by various political parties, said that "some terrorists belonging to different political parties, were arrested". Conveniently and for the sake of expediency, Rehman Malik failed to identify these parties, patronising and harbouring terrorists in Karachi. He also did not mention what action has been taken against these delinquent and terrorism-tainted political parties, their leaders, affiliated terrorist cells and how may terrorists have been tried and punished so far? One hopes that some day, Rehman Malik would also talk about his own, (non) performance and (in) competence as the interior minister.