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The interior minister asked the provinces to train and equip law enforcement
personnel to protect the minorities’ places of worship also and enhance police
patrolling at their gatherings. “Special surveillance of minorities’ worship places
should be carried out by intelligence agencies,” he said tasking the civilian
intelligence agency – Intelligence Bureau – with the job.
“We want to introduce a new mechanism for arms licences for controlling guns
in the country,” Chaudhry Nisar commented. “We are in a war-like situation.
We cannot afford free flow of weapons.”
On the issue of placing people on the Exit Control List (ECL), the interior
minister directed the agencies, departments and organisations concerned to
justify their stance on enlisting thousands of people.
Names of more than 7,500 people are placed on the ECL while hundreds of
them have been on this list since 1996-97. The government is reviewing the laws
related to banning people from going abroad.
Interior Secretary Shahid Khan said some parameters to bring these prisoners
back on humanitarian basis could be devised by restoring these agreements.
“Many people are innocent but languishing in foreign jails,” he claimed.