Islamabad, Sep 1: With radicalisation deepening its roots in Pakistan and becoming a major worry, Interior Minister Rehman Malik today said the country will follow the policy of de-radicalisation being pursued by Saudi Arabia.
"We want to remove concepts of extremism from the society and it is our aim to eliminate the groups of terrorists with their nefarious designs and affiliation with political groups or extortionists in one way or the other," Malik said.
He said the policy of Saudi Arabia will be followed to tackle extremism.
Following a series of deadly terrorist attacks in 2003, the Saudi Arabian government had created a counterterrorism strategy focusing on rehabilitating extremists and preventing their violent ideology from spreading.
Talking to reporters in Karachi, Malik said the government is fully determined to expose all elements involved in acts of terrorism across the country.
"It is our objective and plan to work with the youth to introduce community policing with the co-operation of area police and paramilitary force in Karachi," he added.
Malik said that after Eid holidays, media would be given the recordings and DVDs of alleged terrorists, who, according to him, had confessed their crimes and their modus operandi.
The interior minister has earlier made several promises of exposing the arrested terrorists to the media. PTI
