Malik says Pakistani law enforcement personnel will be given special training about how to deal with IED devices. PHOTO: EPA
ISLAMABAD:?Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed on Thursday that Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) that were used in terrorist activities in Pakistan?were actually manufactured in Afghanistan.
He was?addressing?the IED National Counter conference in Islamabad.
Malik said intelligence agencies have found that?93 per cent explosives used in terrorist activities in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa were manufactured in Afghanistan.
“With naked eyes, you can see on the border… that the terrorists are coming towards Pakistan, along with arms and ammunition.”
He said that the Pakistani police and law enforcement personnel will be given special training about how to deal with IED devices.
“When we were asked to do more, we have done much much more. And today you have seen, the crossing from our side is nominal,” said Malik.
The minister blamed Afghan militiamen for destroying bio-metric systems that made it impossible to identify the tens of thousands of people who cross the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan daily.
“We really do not know how many terrorists, how many drug barons, how many criminals are crossing every day,” said Malik.
Malik used his speech to request greater assistance from the international community in boosting police training and forensic capabilities. “We need your moral support. We need your practical support in building the capacity, both for the police and of course our armed forces.
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