Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters that militants have no option but surrender because the government is determined to "either kill them or arrest them."
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He wanted to kill them, I think, or at least some of them.
Now you have to allow the police eventually, if they think somebody's going to killthemor try to killthem, to be able to act with all the expertise they have in self-defence and they're trained not to kill somebody but to disarm them and disable them, perfectly proper.