As Pakistan battles the scourge of terrorism amid the recent wave of attacks, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Wednesday highlighted the state’s exclusive right to carry out armed actions.
“Only the state has the right to carry out armed actions […] suicide attacks are against [the principles] of Shariah,” the forum said in a statement.
The council’s statement comes as the country has been gripped by an alarming surge in terrorist attacks as the nation’s more than 128 million voters gear up to elect their representatives in upcoming general elections slated for February 8.
