Pakistan denies terrorist training camp in its territory

Pakistan categorically said on August 6that there is no terrorist training camp in any part of the country including the tribal area bordering to Afghanistan, the local news agency News Network International reported here.

While offering a comment on US media reports, Pakistani Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan said, "there are no terrorist training camps in any part of the country."

Some US media's latest reports suggested that the training camps of terrorists in Pakistan's tribal region bordering to Afghanistan revived again.

The reports also alleged that in these camps the terrorists get training for saboteur activities to rest of the world as well as Pakistan.

The New York Times in a report on Wednesday alleged Pakistan was allowing militant groups to train and organize insurgents to fight in Afghanistan. The report was based on the claim made by a teenaged Pakistani prisoner jailed in Afghanistan.

The spokesman of the Foreign Office rejected reports saying, "Pakistan opposed and condemned all forms of terrorism and has taken all the necessary steps to eliminate this threat."

Masood Khan said Pakistan would not allow to any body or group to use its territory for any kind of terrorism.

Referring recent arrests in Pakistan including a Pakistani computer expert named as Naeem Noor Khan and a Tanzanian Khalfan Ghailani, Masood Khan said, "the arrests of these two high profile militants of al-Qaeda vindicates Pakistan's resolve to uproot menace of terrorism from its territory."

Following the information from the Pakistani intelligence agents from both the said arrested al-Qaeda militants, the US and Britain authorities issued high alert warnings in the backdrop of the plan seized by Pakistan of attacking important financial centers in US and Britain.

Source: Xinhua