Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif (L) and Army Chief Asim Munir (R)
Islamabad: Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq has called a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on national security. The meeting will be held in a closed room on Tuesday. This meeting is considered very important in view of the recent attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. According to the report of Pakistan’s daily newspaper ‘Dawn’, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has asked the National Assembly Speaker to call the security meeting at Parliament House at 1:30 pm on Tuesday.
Army will give information to Parliamentary Committee
According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the top officials of the Pakistani Army will give extensive information to the Parliamentary Committee on the current security situation in this meeting. Pakistan’s National Assembly is the lower house of Parliament. The incident has been in view of a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces bordering the neighboring country Afghanistan.
Government is planning a big plan?
The ‘Dawn’ report cited a source of the National Assembly stated that since no parliamentary committee was formed on security, members of the National Assembly’s Defense and Permanent Committees of Foreign Affairs, members of the federal cabinet, the Chief Ministers of the four provinces and the leaders of all the parliamentary parties or their representatives will participate in this meeting to be held within the closed door. Prime Minister Sharif and Army Chief General Asim Munir will attend this meeting. Meanwhile, the newspaper reported that the government is planning a massive campaign against Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and other terrorist groups involved in increasing terrorist attacks in the province.
Bla train hijack
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) in Pakistan’s Balochistan province attacked the Jafar Express carrying 440 passengers on March 11 near the hilly areas of Gudra and Piru Kunri. On March 12, the militants killed 21 passengers and paramilitary forces before the army killed all 33 terrorists. Three security personnel were killed in five separate terrorist attacks on Sunday in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Language)
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