Political parties should join hands to foil anti-state conspiracies: Malik

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday called upon all political parties to join hands and assist the government in foiling conspiracies being hatched to destabilise the country.
Winding up a debate on the law and order situation in Karachi and Quetta, he assured the National Assembly that target killing in Karachi had been controlled while there were some small groups involved in various crimes, to tackle which the local Station House Officers (SHOs) were handed responsibility.
The minister said that a Parliamentary Committee of all the political parties be constituted to suggest a durable solution to the law and order situation for the economic hub of the country.
He said the said committee should sit in Karachi where the interior ministry and the provincial government would be at its disposal.
He said the committee would be told about the entire operation of drug and land mafia and local criminals in Karachi and all the facts would be placed before them.
The minister said that those accused in terrorist attacks were being freed by the courts due to lack of evidence and for that the government had submitted a bill in the Senate.
He said that a year and a half had passed but the bill was still unapproved. He said if there was any problem in the bill, the MNAs should discuss those in the National Assembly.