Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the Apex Committee, which met in Peshawar earlier today, had expressed “unflinching resolve to protect the people of Pakistan at any cost”.
“Those who attack innocent citizens will be brought to justice. We will not allow anti-terror gains to be reversed,” the premier said.
The meeting was convened in Peshawar in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack in the city’s Police Lines Area that claimed the lives of 101 people, mostly policemen.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but also in Balochistan and the Punjab town of Mianwali, which borders KP. A terror attack also reached as far as the peripheries of Islamabad.
January was the deadliest month since 2018, in which 134 people lost their lives — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 militant attacks across the country.
Taking to Twitter after the meeting concluded, the premier said, “The meeting reviewed the security landscape and agreed to adopt a uniform policy between the federation and provinces.
“It considered proposals for revision of the National Action Plan (NAP) and approved a slew of measures to improve investigation, forensic and working of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD),” he said.
“Media, religious scholars and political leaders have a fundamental role in creating national consensus against terrorism. The state will adopt [a] zero tolerance policy against terrorism,” PM Shehbaz said, adding that the meeting also agreed to establish an implementation mechanism for the decisions taken.
