{"id":128505,"date":"2026-06-30T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=128505"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:22:27","slug":"terrorists-must-not-be-called-by-any-other-name-says-info-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/128505\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists must not be called by any other name, says info minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(National Times)- Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Tuesday criticised what he described as the \u201cunfortunate trend\u201d of calling terrorists \u2018militants\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Referring to a news report published by Turkish public broadcaster&nbsp;<em>TRT World<\/em>&nbsp;on the recent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2011178\">&nbsp;terrorist attack&nbsp;<\/a>on a Rangers facility in Karachi in which three security personnel were martyred, Tarar strongly objected to the use of the term \u201cmilitants\u201d for the attackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Karachi attack was a terrorist attack in which innocent people were killed,\u201d he said. \u201cTerrorists must not be called by any other name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTerrorists are terrorists, they have no caste, colour, creed or religion,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tarar\u2019s statements come days after the military\u2019s media wing announced the capture of one of the terrorists involved in the Rangers facility attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terrorist was identified by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) as an Afghan national with links to Indian proxy Jaamatul Ahrar. He and his companions had been trained in Afghanistan before crossing the border to carry out their attack, ISPR said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2011624\">summoned&nbsp;<\/a>the Afghan charge d\u2019affaires to issue a strong demarche over the Karachi terrorist attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2006316\/pakistan-demands-verifiable-non-reversible-action-by-afghan-taliban-against-terrorists-envoy-tells-unsc\"><u>repeatedly urged<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;the Taliban administration in Kabul to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries on Afghan soil that are used for attacks in Pakistan. Officials say those appeals have gone unheeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The information minister has been a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1976188\">vocal critic<\/a>&nbsp;of the Afghan Taliban\u2019s \u201cperversion of religion\u201d to legitimise its rule and \u2018authoritarian motives\u2019. Tarar has also accused the regime of providing safe haven for the training and facilitation of terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(National Times)- Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Tuesday criticised what he described as the \u201cunfortunate trend\u201d of calling terrorists \u2018militants\u2019. Referring to a news report published by Turkish public broadcaster&nbsp;TRT World&nbsp;on the recent&nbsp;terrorist attack&nbsp;on a Rangers facility in Karachi in which three security personnel were martyred, Tarar strongly objected to the use of the term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Terrorists must not be called by any other name, says info minister - Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/128505\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Terrorists must not be called by any other name, says info minister - Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(National Times)- Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Tuesday criticised what he described as the \u201cunfortunate trend\u201d of calling terrorists \u2018militants\u2019. 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