Tomorrow the Ahmadzai Wazir clan has to hand over the wanted persons Maulvi Abbas and Mohammad Javedone. I guess that it was discussed at this meeting. Expect something during the weekend:
http://www.geo.tv/main_files/pakistan.aspx?id=27164
Musharraf says Wana becomes Al-Qaeda headquarters
ISLAMABAD: President Gen Pervez Musharraf while presiding over a high level meeting regarding law and order in the country, held here Awan-e-Sadr on Thursday said that Wana and Shakai were headquarters of Al-Qaeda and added that terrorists hiding there and their harbours would be dismantled.
The President identified contrasting perceptions vis-a-vis law and order the gap between policy formation and its implementation as the major impediments in the way of maintenance of peace and security in the country.
He underlined that the religio-political parties as well as Ulema and Mashaikh should also fulfill their obligation in promoting sectarian harmony and tolerance in the society.
The meeting which lasted for about five hours was attended by Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Senior Minister Shaukat Aziz, Interior Minster Faisal Saleh Hayat, Information Minster Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Minster for religious affairs Ijazul Haq, governors and chief ministers of all the four provinces, Vice Chief of Army Staff General Yousaf Khan and chiefs of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat told Geo TV that the meeting identified internal security threats and discussed ways and means to curb them.
"We focused on the possible solutions of law and order problems and decided that the Government would concentrate on addressing the problems at flashpoint places."
With close coordination between the provinces and the federal government, we will be able to root out the menace of extremism, terrorism and lawlessness", he said.
The President warned that elements, which are bent upon impairing law and order situation and are conspiring to stop fruits of economic progress reach masses would not succeed in their vicious designs.
Given the present circumstances the President said that rooting of terrorism and extremism were in the large interest of the country.
"Pakistan would achieve its objectives without comprising its national interest", he said.
The meeting also reviewed reports regarding imparting of training of terrorism in some seminaries of the country.
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Musharraf Vows to Crush Al-Qaida Men, Their Supporters in Tribal Region.
(just thought I'd put this here on this thread also.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1164043/posts
The deadline is postponed until July 10:
http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en69034&F_catID=&f_type=source
Militants clash with security forces
WANA, July 1: Security forces and militants exchanged fire close to the Pakistan-Afghan border in the rugged South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday. There were no reports of any casualties on either side, official and tribal sources said.
The fighting began when militants attacked a security force checkpoint in Khamrang near Shkai, about 28 kilometres to the west of the regional headquarters. Both sides were reported to have used heavy weapons in the clash that lasted three hours.
Khamrang, a thickly-forested area close to the Shawal Mountain Range on the Afghan border, is widely seen as the new hideout of foreign militants. Hundreds of foreign militants are believed to have fled to the mountainous area following a military operation in their former stronghold of Shakai last month.
Meanwhile, Ahmadzai Wazir tribesmen are meeting yet again for another grand jirga in Shulam near Wana to discuss a 10-day deadline for them to hand over wanted local militants Maulvi Abbas and Javed Karmazkhel.
The deadline set by the administration in Wana expires on July 10. Maulavi Abbas has been accused of sheltering foreign militants, mainly Arabs of Middle Eastern origin, while Javed is a local tribesman associated with the Taliban.