PM chairs high-level meeting to review NAP implementation
The meeting is reviewing the country's internal security situation after Quetta hospital blast.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - A high-level meeting headed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is underway in Islamabad to review the implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) on terrorism.
Federal ministers including Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, DG ISI, DGMO and DG IB are present in the meeting.
The meeting is reviewing the country’s internal security situation especially in the backdrop of Quetta tragedy.
Monday’s terror attack targeting lawyers and media persons was the deadliest in Pakistan after Lahore’s Iqbal Town Park bombing that killed at least 72 people.
The motive behind the attack was unclear, but several lawyers have been targeted during a recent spate of killings in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, which has a history of militant and separatist violence.
According to a military statement, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif ordered intelligence agencies to track down and apprehend all those linked to the attack.
The 20-point grand "National Action Plan" (NAP) to rein in militancy was introduced after deadly terrorist attack on Army Public School in Peshawar in December, 2014.
Nearly 300 death row prisoners have been hanged so far since the government lifted a six-year moratorium on death penalty on December 17, 2014. The terrorists were involved in killing of civilians as well as of personnel of law enforcement agencies.
Security forces have carried out 54,376 combing operations so far under NAP and as results of these 60,420 arrests were made. Similarly, 3,019 intelligence based operations were carried out and 1,388 intelligence reports were shared with intelligence agencies.
