PM chairs high-level security huddle in Islamabad

Nawaz will also preside over FATA Reforms Committee meeting later today

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is chairing an important meeting on implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).

The meeting comes just a day after a related high-powered committee held its maiden meeting to take stock of the plan’s slack implementation. National Security Adviser Lt-Gen (retd) Nasser Janjua will brief the premier on the NAP Implementation Committee’s first meeting held on Monday under the former’s chair.



Officials told The Express Tribune that the panel voiced its concerns over lack of progress on at least eight points of the NAP. “These points relate to banned groups including sectarian outfits, terror financing, resurfacing of banned organisations under changed names, coordination between security and law enforcement agencies at the Centre and provinces, anti-terrorism laws and creation of counter-terrorism forces at the provincial level,” they added.

Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar are also present at the meeting. The prime minister is also scheduled to chair the meeting of Fata Reforms Committee later today.

PM to chair meeting of FATA Reforms Committee

An official statement said PM Nawaz  had constituted the committee last year. The committee is composed of Aziz as its head, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Minister for States and Frontier Regions Abdul Qadir Baloch, NSA Nasser Janjua, and Federal Minister Zahid Hamid as its members.



The committee, after exhausting due process of consultations with all the stakeholders and diligence, has come up with a set of recommendations that will be discussed. Merging Fata with K-P is one of the key recommendations.