By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee will meet today (Monday) to take key decisions concerning security and the economy.
Spike in terror incidents across the country remains the main concern as the body meets in the second round of discussions today. On Friday, the NSC; the high-level body, vowed to eradicate terrorism from the country with full force before postponing the moot till Monday. The decisions would be finalised in view of the proposals today.
NSC agenda
It is quite unusual that the NSC meeting continues into a second round. According to the officials, the high-level body would take decisions not only to deal with terrorism but also discuss how to stabilise the country’s crippling economy.
Over the past few months, the law-and-order situation in the country has deteriorated with terrorist groups like the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Gul Bahadur Group, and the militant Islamic State group executing attacks across the country. Terrorist elements in Balochistan have also followed these terrorist groups and stepped up their violent activities and formalised a nexus with the TTP.
The incident at the interrogation centre of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police Counter-Terrorism Department in Bannu and the suicide bombing in Islamabad weeks back not only set off alarm bells in the power corridors but also left several countries worried about the security of their nationals in Pakistan.
