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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45831)	3/29/2004 5:51:37 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) of 50167

Militants held in Wana not to be treated as POWs By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: Militants arrested in the recent Wana military operation in Waziristan Agency will not be treated as Prisoners of War (POWs). They are criminals and would be tried under the law of the land since they were arrested in anti-terrorist operation. Acting Foreign Secretary Tariq Usman Haider told The News on Monday evening that the law and order situation created by the miscreants called for an operation. Wherever a law and order problem arises, police are asked to take action. In case they fail to control the situation, civil armed forces are deployed in the area and calling regular army in aid of the civil administration is a last resort, he added. Earlier Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Shaukat Sultan said that the arrested persons would be dealt in under the law of the country. To a query he agreed that the militants were arrested in a combat military operation and the treatment to be meted out to them would be determined by the authorities concerned. According to the figures given by the DG ISPR the number of those arrested in the just concluded operation is 167. Ninety-four among them are locals while 73 are foreigners, he said. To another question Shaukat Sultan made it clear that timing of the Wana operation had nothing to do with the visit of US Secretary of State Colin Powell. No operation has been planned during next month during the visit of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The visit has not been scheduled yet, he added. He reminded that the operation in tribal areas was started much earlier i.e in January this year. He thanked the people of tribal areas for their cooperation and said that no innocent person would be implicated in any case. Commenting on the situation, Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan said that legal status of the arrested persons would be determined after soliciting legal opinion in a couple of days. Well-placed sources told this scribe that the arrested persons were being looked after well and are being interrogated by various agencies. They have been kept in a secure place. The government has no plan to hand them over to any other country, the sources added.

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