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No soft corner for Taleban in Pakistan: Shahbaz Sharif

Islamabad - The Punjab Chief Minister Punjab government has taken big steps, including amendments to laws.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said there is no soft corner left for Taleban in Pakistan which is evident from the strong-willed drive against extremism and terrorism under the National Action Plan (NAP) in the country.
Sharif said the Punjab government has taken big steps, including amendments to relevant laws aimed at curbing hate speech and distribution of hate material, besides the arrest of hundreds of trouble makers in the province.
"There is no soft corner for Taleban left in Pakistan and the NAP is a manifestation of Pakistan's national unity," Shahbaz Sharif told a Press conference at the Pakistan High Commission in London at the conclusion of his four-day official visit to the UK, according to Daily News.
"In Punjab, we have taken huge steps . changed laws, curbed hate speech and hate material. We have told mosques and Imambargahs that no hate will be tolerated," he said. He mentioned recent local bodies election, saying arms were not displayed and culprits were punished wherever law was violated.
The chief minister said Pakistan saw rise in extremism as a result of the global events in which the country had no role but unfortunately Pakistani people became the biggest victims of the terrorism and extremism.
It is unfortunate, he said, that minorities in the Punjab and elsewhere in Pakistan are victimised along with the mainstream communities. However, he vowed that this challenge will be dealt with and a narrative will be built to give equal rights to all Pakistanis. He told reporters that 45 people had been arrested after recent troubles in Jhelum as the law came into action against law-breakers.
Shahbaz Sharif said that energy projects could not be set up overnight, adding that Nandipur project was a dead project but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif activated it to the shock of naysayers. The project had started working, he said.
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