Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army chief General Raheel Sharif upheld on Monday that the successful implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) is imperative and the duty of everyone.
During a high-level meeting in Islamabad, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan briefed the meeting about the different stages of NAP implementation across the country.
Praising the security personnel, the prime minister said, “Unmatched sacrifices rendered by the law enforcement agencies to eliminate terrorism are commendable.”
Terrorism will be eliminated from every nook and corner of the country, he added.
PM Nawaz also said that the national resolve to fight terrorism and extremism is unflinching and “those threatening our children from going to schools will be defeated”.
Meanwhile, National Security Adviser Lt Gen (r) Nasser Khan Janjua told the participants about the latest talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval regarding foreign secretary-level meeting. He also said India is looking forward for arrival of a special investigation team (SIT) to help probe into the Pathankot incident.
However, information that the SIT sought has not yet been provided by India, he added.
Regarding Afghanistan, sources said the civil-military leadership agreed to make quadrilateral talks successful at all costs.
The meeting was also attended by ISI DG Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar and other senior civil and military officials.
Earlier, private and government schools that closed following an alert over possible militant attacks, reopened on Monday.
Authorities last week closed all schools in the country’s largest province, Punjab, following an alert over possible militant attacks, according to a government notice.
The warning came a week after a breakaway Taliban faction attacked Bacha Khan University in Charsadda and killed 21 people, mostly students.
That university reopened briefly last Monday but then closed indefinitely to give students more time to recover from the incident.
The government memo says there is an intelligence report that 13 terrorists recently entered the country from neighbouring Afghanistan and were planning suicide attacks on schools across Pakistan.
The Charsadda attack revived memories of the horrific December 2014 Taliban attack on an army run school in the nearby city of Peshawar that killed 150 people, 144 of them children.
