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Top civil-military leadership briefed on national security at NAP meeting




ISLAMABAD: National Security Adviser retired Lt. Gen. Nasser Janjua briefed the top civil and military leadership on different aspects of National Action Plan (NAP) in a meeting of National Security Committee (NSC) here on Tuesday.

The meeting convened on the NAP was presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif which discussed progress on various points of the anti-terror plan.

According to a PM House statement, the meeting focused on inter-provincial NAP implementation and discussed events surrounding India’s firing at the Line of Control (LoC).

A National Security Committee meeting will follow the meeting on NAP.

The meeting was attended by all provincial chief ministers, along with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry, Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif, Lt Gen (r) Nasser Janjua, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar, Direction General Intelligence Bureau Aftab Sultan, Director General Military Operations Maj Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Director General of Military Intelligence Maj Gen Nadeem Zaki Manj, Director General Counter Terrorism Maj Gen Tariq Qaddus.

After NSA brief, the chief ministers updated the participants about the status on NAP execution in their provinces.

Earlier in the day, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif called on PM Sharif before the meeting of NSC and apprised him of the situation on borders, specially on the Line of Control.




 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.