· 'Taliban wanted to enter India after overrunning Pak'
STAFF WRITER (PTI) 16:48 HRS IST
Islamabad, Jun 27 (PTI) Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that had the Taliban militants overrun his country, their next targets would have been India and Bangladesh.
"India and Bangladesh would have been next if the Taliban had taken over Pakistan," Malik told reporters while briefing them on the outcome of the meeting of SAARC Interior Ministers here yesterday.
Pakistani Taliban last year warned that it would dispatch terrorists to fight India, once an Islamic state had been created in Pakistan.
"We want an Islamic state (in Pakistan). If we get that, then we will go to the borders and help fight the Indians," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's slain chief Hakimullah Mehsud had warned in footage aired by Britain's Sky News channel in October last year.
At the SAARC briefing, Malik contended that Pakistan's actions against the Taliban had helped improve regional security.
Pakistan's actions against the Taliban will continue till they are eradicated, he added.
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