Sunni and other parties follow MWM’s line to support anti-Taliban operation

Sunni and other parties followed Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen’s line to support military operation Zarb-e-Azb that is aimed at eliminating the terrorists belonging to Yazidi takfiri nasbi Taliban and their allied national and foreign terrorists.

Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafari, secretary general of the MWM was the first political leader who announced support to the Operation Zarb-e-Azb. Then came  Sunni Ittehad Council’s Sahibzada Hamid Raza. Sunni scholars and clerics from Jamia Naeemia, Ittehad e Tanzeemat-e-Madaris-e-Deenia and many other Sunni clerics also announced support to the Operation Azb-e-Zarb.

Surprisingly, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf, who leads ruling coalition in the Khyber-Pukhtoonkhwa province, the most affected province due to terrorism, also announced its support to anti-Taliban military operation. Shiite News Correspondent observed that Imran Khan was trying face-saving after Mehmood ur Rasheed of his PTI announced the support while talking to reporters but Imran Khan hypocritically defended his earlier stance that talks should be held. He said that his party should have been taken into confidence on the issue of operation.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also made public the federal government’s policy in favour of the military operation. Defence Minister Khuwaja Mohammad Asif also expressed his support to the operation.

Operation ‘Zarb-e-Azb’ has been launched against terrorism and it will continue till the obtainment of the final objective of restoration of peace and tranquility in Pakistan, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif here on Monday.
 
Addressing the lawmakers and senator from the floor of National Assembly and then Senate here, the Prime Minister said the government, with a view to give peace a chance, had begun dialogue process but at the same made it clear that talks and terrorism cannot go side by side.
 
“We gave peace a chance despite the sacrifice of thousands of lives rendered by the army and others,” the PM recalled.
 
However, he regretted that the offer of initiating the peace talks process made in all sincerity was not reciprocated in the same coin. “On the one hand the peace negotiations were undertaken while on the other the bloodbath of our women and children also continued,” he added.
 
He said the ‘game of fire and death was being played from Islamabad Kutchery to Karachi airport’. “So much so that even our worship places, educational institutions, army installations, airports and residences became unsafe.”
 
He said the acts of terrorism dealt a great blow to the dignity and standing of Pakistan.
 
The Prime Minster said in the wake of relentless string of terrorist attacks and, finally, after the deadly assault on Karachi airport the decision was taken to launch the operation. “I am confident the operation will be the harbinger of peace and security for Pakistan,” he added.
 
He said special centers have already been set up for those willing to adopt the path to peace.
 
He urged the religious Ulema to come forward and guide the fellow countrymen so that terrorism and extremism can be defeated.
 
The Premier said there might have been difference of opinion over peace talks and operation but this must come to an end now.