About 100 Pakistanis, including women, have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the ISIS since the rise of the dreaded terror group in the West Asia, a Minister in the provincial Punjab government said here.
“Some 100 Pakistanis including women have left the country for Syria and Iraq to join the ISIS since the rise of the militant group in the East Asia,” Punjab province law Minister Rana Sanaullah said.
“The Government is doing its best to stop the recruitment for the ISIS,” the Minister said, adding that eight activists of the group were arrested from Sialkot district of Punjab and they are still associated with the Jamaat-ud-Dawah.
He said the Government would not let the ISIS to have their foothold in Pakistan.
Earlier, the law enforcement agencies arrested over 40 people, including women, over their alleged linkage to ISIS.
The arrests were made during a series of raids by counter-terrorism officials to nab the alleged supporters and activists of the Middle Eastern terrorist group in Pakistan.