The high level meeting, attended by army chief Gen Raheel Sharif, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam, Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Ashfaq Nadeem, was given a briefing by interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
Nisar updated Nawaz on the status of raising a rapid response force at the federal and provincial level.
Nawaz appreciated the improved coordination with law enforcement and intelligence agencies, crediting them for improved law and order situation in Balochistan.
Defence minister Khawaja Asif was not present in the meeting, nor the prime minister's adviser on national security and foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz or his special secretary Tariq Fatemi. Other members of the federal cabinet were also missing.
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@A: It seems the other way round. After all terrorists are army's strategic ssets, not NS's.
Hopefully NS is being informed only and not asked. Otherwise he may once again plunge nation into useless negotiations with terrorists.