State 'involved' with JuD, JeM: Pak minister admits

May 18, 2016 19:38

In a startling admission, a senior minister in Pakistan's Punjab province today said the government cannot take legal action against militant groups

like Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Jaish-e-Mohammad as the "state itself remained involved" with them.

In an interview to BBC Urdu, Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah was asked why legal action has never been taken against anti-India groups in the province which were close to the "establishment".

"By pro-establishment groups if you mean JuD and JeM, then let me tell you that they have been declared proscribed organisations and they can no longer carry out any activity in the province," he said.

The minister ruled out the possibility of any legal action against the groups saying "How can you prosecute a group with whom the state itself has been involved with?".

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