Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting on Friday to review the internal security situation and the implementation of the National Action Plan.
Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Prime Minister’s Advisor’s on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and Tariq Fatimi, and others attended the meeting.
Sources said that different aspects of internal security, implementation of NAP, and the upcoming Pakistan-India national security advisor-level talks came under discussion during the meeting.
The meeting comes a day after the military launched a ground offensive against the local and foreign militants in the remote and mountainous Shawal Valley of North Waziristan. The ground operation was launched hours after air strikes in killed 43 suspected militants.
Fighter jets have been pounding militant sanctuaries in Shawal since last Sunday when terrorists killed Punjab Home Minister Col (retd) Shuja Khanzada in a suicide bombing in his native Shadi Khan village of Attock district.
The army has been waging a major offensive to clear militant hideouts in North Waziristan since June last year. Officials say nearly 3,000 militants have been killed since the launch of the latest offensive.
