Pakistan’s National Security Committee Takes Aim at TTP, Gives Go-ahead for Massive Military Operation
Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) has given a go-in advance for national army operations towards “growing extremism and terrorism”. The choice is in step with the National Action Plan (NAP) that got here into pressure after the assault at Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar on December 16, 2014, wherein at the least one hundred forty four schoolchildren and personnel individuals have been brutally killed allegedly via way of means of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters.
There will now no longer be any talks with terrorists, it turned into determined on the NSC meeting, chaired via way of means of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and attended via way of means of the pinnacle brass of the civil-army leadership. Among the ones gift have been Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, DGISI, DGIB, DGMI, and different pinnacle officials.
The ruling Taliban in Afghanistan must fulfil their commitments in keeping with the Doha Deal, the committee stated. It’s the responsibility of the Afghan Taliban to steady and make borders peaceful; Pakistan will now no longer tolerate any infiltration, stated the committee, in keeping with sources.
The Pakistan authorities has additionally determined to take strict motion towards greenback smugglers, they added. The federal authorities will offer extra price range to regulation enforcement corporations to make certain a success operations, stated the sources.
