Pakistan has acknowledged that some organisations that are terrorist in nature are in the country but said it would take some time to contain and eliminate such groups.
"We have some organisations which are extremist and even terrorist in nature," Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said in an interview to the leading magazine published in the latest issue. He specifically included the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM), the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in this category, according to a press release issued by the news fortnightly.
Pakistan had taken various concrete steps, in the domestic context, to deal with this kind of extremism and terrorism but pursuing a policy of containing and eliminating these tendencies in the country is bound to take some time, he said. Elaborating on the problem of extremism and terrorism, he said this has been a domestic phenomenon of increasing sectarian militancy, of increasing militancy also as a consequence of a proliferation of weapons in Pakistan following the decade of the 1980`s.
Expressing Islamabad`s willingness to cooperate fully with New Delhi in efforts for The prevention and eradication of terrorism, he, however, said “We need evidence against individuals who, according to Government of India, are implicated in the reprehensible attack on Indian Parliament. We cannot just act because India makes a demand.” Bureau Report