Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Haji Mohammad Adeel on Monday said that all parties would have to get their acts together in order to draft a strategy to ensure law and order in Pakistan, adding that terrorism was not a problem only for the ANP but for the entire country.
Speaking at a press conference in Islamabad, the ANP Vice President and Senator said that the deteriorating security situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) was also affecting other parts of the country. He added that an All Parties Conference would help in securing a consensus on the issue of terrorism. The senator said that although the government had previously held talks with the militants and had even accepted their ‘Nizam-i-Adl’, it did not deter the insurgents from perpetuating terrorism.
Adeel concluded that more soldiers had died in the ‘war against terrorism’ than in the wars of 1965 and 1971 combined.
