Last Updated: February 25, 2023, 00:10 IST
Prime Minister Sharif criticised Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: social gathering for skipping an apex committee assembly held final month. (File pic / Reuters)
The PM chaired a high-level National Apex Committee assembly to formulate a technique to take care of the rising incidents of terror assaults
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday mentioned that if the nation has to rise like an “economic tiger”, lawmakers must rise above personal likes and dislikes, as he chaired a high-level National Apex Committee meeting to formulate a strategy to deal with the rising incidents of terror attacks.
The meeting was attended by a raft of high-profile members from the political and military establishment.
Prime Minister Sharif criticised Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: party for skipping an apex committee meeting held last month.
“After the Peshawar incident, I invited all political stakeholders… but they [PTI] did not consider it appropriate to participate in the huddle and they are still trying to resolve matters on the streets,” he mentioned.
On January 30, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up during the afternoon prayers in a mosque in Peshawar, killing 101 people and injuring more than 200 others.
The suicide bomber disguised himself in a police uniform to sneak into the high-security zone and was riding a motorcycle with a helmet and mask on, police said.
“For the sake of prosperity, we must sit down and resolve the matter amicably but unfortunately one segment is still trying to sabotage the matters, which is condemnable,” Sharif said.
“If we want to make Pakistan an economic tiger then we must rise above personal likes and dislikes,” he added.
Speaking on the precarious security situation in the country, Prime Minister Sharif said NACTA has become a “dormant institution,” and the time was ripe to change it with the National Action Plan (NAP).
The NAP was devised by the then governors of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)following the heinous Army Public School assault in Peshawar in 2014, by which over 130 college students have been killed.
The assault was orchestrated by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Friday’s assembly comes after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and the Director General of the nation’s spy company Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. General Nadeem Anjum met the highest brass of the Afghanistan Taliban regime in Kabul to talk about the rise in terror assaults in Pakistan masterminded by the TTP.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, principally within the nation’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but additionally in Balochistan, the Punjab city of Mianwali, which borders the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and additionally within the Sindh province.
During the Apex Committee assembly held final month, Pakistan’s civil and navy management determined to search Afghan Taliban chief Haibuttallah Akhundzada’s intervention to management the TTP.
In November final yr, the TTP known as off an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the federal government in June 2022 and ordered its militants to perform assaults on the safety forces.
Pakistan hoped that the Afghan Taliban after coming to energy would cease using their soil in opposition to Pakistan by expelling the TTP operatives however they’ve apparently refused to accomplish that at the price of straining ties with Islamabad.
The TTP, arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007, known as off a ceasefire with the federal authorities and ordered its militants to stage terrorist assaults throughout the nation.
The group, which is believed to be shut to Al-Qaeda, has been blamed for a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on navy bases, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
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