| Photo Credit: APmore-inPakistan cannot win its fight against militancy until it adopts “zero-tolerance” against all terror groups, a leading daily commented on Wednesday on the arrest of Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and his associates, saying they have a lot to answer for. It said, clearly Pakistan cannot win the fight against militancy and extremism until it adopts a zero-tolerance approach against all manifestations of the problem. “And, just as clearly, notwithstanding the protestations of innocence by the JuD/FiF/Lashkar-e-Taiba and the angry denunciations by their cadres of the government’s action, Saeed and his associates have a great deal to answer for,” it said. But, a sweeping set of actions against all groups and emphatic public ownership of those actions by the military and political leadership would send a strong signal. In Pakistan’s interest“The fight against militancy is a fight for Pakistan by Pakistan for Pakistani reasons — that is the message that the state must send urgently,” it concluded.

Source: The Hindu February 01, 2017 12:45 UTC