'Interior ministry, provinces should form security policy'

'Interior ministry, provinces should form security policy'
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Summary Interior Minister briefed Nawaz on the law and order situation of the country.


ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Just a day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a rare visit to the head office of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier visited the interior ministry on Friday.

 

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan briefed Nawaz on the law and order situation of the country.

 

Meanwhile, Nawaz Sharif said that the interior ministry should form a national security policy after consulting with all provinces.

 

The prime minister was accompanied by Federal Ministers Ishaq Dar‚ Pervaiz Rashid and Khawaja Saad Rafique as well as Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.

 

On June 11, the premier – along with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and other senior officials – visited the ISI HQ and was reportedly informed by the agency’s top brass about all internal and external security challenges faced by the country.

 

The issue of peace talks with the Taliban was also broached.

 

Prime Minister Nawaz had called for increased coordination between intelligence agencies.