India may be behind Swat unrest: NWFP CM
Islamabad,
Oct
28:
The
caretaker
Chief
Minister
of
North
West
Frontier
Province
(NWFP),
Shamsul
Mulk,
has
said
that
the
possibility
of
Indian
hands
in
the
prevailing
unrest
in
Swat
cannot
be
ruled
out.
Mulk said that India or Afghanistan could be supporting the militants who were creating unrest in Swat.
“The involvement of foreign militants in the prevailing situation in Swat can"t be ruled out. India or Afghanistan may be behind such elements," Mulk told a press conference.
The military operation in the valley had been launched on the demand of the locals, the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.
Earlier, PPP Information Secretary Sherry Rehman said that the Swat Valley has been under an intense grip of violence for the past many months in the face of weakening writ of the state and growing influence of Maulana Fazlullah.
Meanwhile, the gunbattle between the security forces and militants continued in the Valley on Saturday after firing between the personnel of security forces and militants resumed at Kabal on Kanju Road.
However, no human causalities and property loss has been reported so far.
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