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The meeting is being attended by army chief General Raheel Sharif, Chief of General Staff Lt. General Ashfaq Nadeem as well ministers of interior and other senior officials.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is chairing the high-level security meeting to discuss the government's response to the recent terrorist attack at Karachi airport, officials here have confirmed to The Express Tribune.
The civil and military leadership huddle comes amid growing criticism against the government's lack of response to continued terrorist attacks by the militants.
The meeting is likely to evolve a new strategy in view of the growing incidents of terrorist attacks.
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@Get Serious: Sorry Sir, you forgot to mention asking for help from the USA marines to assist Pakistan army in fighting asymetric war in Pakistan cities; they have quite an experience with the Talibans.
Rex Minor
Be methodical:
1) Secure borders - have a program to (humanely) repatriate all illegal aliens (there are approximately 5 million in Pakistan)
2) Identify who has illegal Pakistani passports and ID cards
3) Build national consensus - if decision taken by parliament to go in, all parties (including IK and JI) need to back the troops 110%
4) Politicians have to start building our troops morale - start vising bases in the mountains, support the troops
5) Lets take down political flags and start flying Pakistani flags
6) Have comprehensive de weaponisation
7) Go back to Qaid's vision of Pakistan
I can not see any NS supporters lamenting the poor peroformance of the whole machinery. That is Ok we understand-Silence is expression of guilt. NS is good for nothing.
Why is the army chief sitting as if he is the second most senior guy? Ministers are on the side and he is occupying head chair on equal footing with pm. Is he a head of state?
This is the time when entire nation including opposition parties should provide support to the government and armed forces. But it sad to know that opposition is doing point scoring on the sensitive issues. They are doing politics while this is not the time to do politics. Allah bless Pakistan and all Pakistanis.
Emperors enjoy tea parties in their coasy homes on public money while from Khyber to Karachi the country is burning we plebs dont deserve even to breathe I guess
Nawaz Sharif comes across as a leader INCAPABLE OF MAKING A DECISION......so he resorts to procrastination.
COAS should resign if he can't deliver. There is no excuse to hide behind the inconsistencies of Nawaz Regime.
And they call themselves the "leaders". 1 year on, thousands of killings, scores of meetings, committees, and still no indecisive. A 15 year old would have more clarity than Nawaz Sharif.
Looking at all the brazen attacks on security installations, its true that terrorists have infected all of them. They have sympathizers within these installations and with the populace of Pakistan. Even with a full scale war against them will fail as most cities are already lodging them. Mullahs are not condemning them.
Result of the meeting.Zero+Zero = Zero. Except that Nawaz Sharif is going to beg the TTP to spare his Raiwand Palaces.
Nawaz Sharif: we should go for dialogues Army Chief: we should go for strikes ISI: we should concentrate on India and Afghanistan rather than Pakistan Others: Lunch was delicious....wasn't it???
Meeting outcome=0
End result of the meeting, a statement issued:
"those who do such acts are enemies of Pakistan and we will deal with them"
Now back to eating..............................................................................
@Hedgefunder:
Good point. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Breaking News, PM want to give yet another chance for dialogue,
incident after incident, they he always chairs a security meeting.. huh whats the outcome? TTP knows very well Pakistan govt. doesn't have guts to go after them and they/TTP are running their business as usual. Govt. is still insisting on Mazaakraat and willing to deal this issue seriously Pakistan is now complete mess and there is no light on the other side of the tunnel.
Time to declare state of emergency and suspend the constitution.
What's the point here? The nation is fed up with this dilly-dallying, if the PM or his cabinet just can't take a decision then some one must and if it has got to be the top brass of our military then so be it. Pack up this circus and get on with the job, provide the safety and the security that we need and free our country from these gangs of terrorists and their apologists, and we don't care who they are and what they call themselves. If democracy means abdication of the writ of our State and letting our enemies walk all over us then they can keep it.
Looks like another meeting to show the press and country they are doing something, when they are all probably having free samosas and biryani at the tax payers expense. The strategy should have been to immediately launch a surprise attack at the terror camps in waziristan within hours of the karachi attacks, but that requires common sense which the Sharif government does not have.
So long as Punjab is safe, these people couldn't care less.
Action against black sheep in media promoting rightist ideology aka Taliban ? Karachi south Punjab any strategy ? Action against mushroom growth of madrasas? Banned organizations ? If no then no to peace is guaranteed.
This Group should seriously conduct some self-examinations, as to their role and urgent requirements needed to stop this this Rot, in the society, as otherwise this Nation may not exist in its present form in very near future ! These were the asserts created by the state to deal with their flawed policies over past couple of decades. Boy ! Are they returning regularly, to bite the very hand that created them ! These people are not going to just disappear either, and will create mayhem on daily basis in this Country.
Spoiler alert: Nothing came out of the meeting...
Ab kia faida, jab paani sar ke upar se nikal gaya
its now too let mr Nawaz,during your talk show the terrorist spread all over the country so now you are the responsible for each pakistani killing
Saanp nikal gaya, aab lakeer peeto has been the principled stand of Nawaz Regime.
Kuch nai hona insay....
Fed up of these meeting. Outcome will be "Govt fully committed to contine negotiations with taliban"....