[In Pakistan, the nation's interior minister said investigators] know the names ... the strongest possible actions ... [to] bring them to swift justice.

American citizens generally have been targeted for kidnapping and other terrorist actions.

You can't have someone who is regarded as sectarian as the minister of interior.

If you're scared of the interior minister, he doesn't scare my dog.

We condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

I understand also that the Minister of the Interior, at the highest level, instructed that they should be (handed over), that the local judicial authorities said the same,