ISLAMABAD: A proposal to establish an special anti-terrorism working group comprising anti-terrorism experts and officials of concerned agencies and armed forces was presented during the first meeting of the Anti-Terrorism National Action Plan Committee (ATNAPC), which has been formed to formulate an anti-terrorism action plan as per the multi-party conference held in Peshawar in the wake of Peshawar attack.
The committee is being headed by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and comprised members of political parties, armed forces and intelligence agencies.
Sources said that the proposal to establish special anti-terrorism working group was presented during the first meeting and the committee members supported the proposal. The meeting of the committee is underway at Parliament House.
The committee is tasked with formulating a plan in seven days to tackle terrorism, which will be presented before the nation. The political parties have nominated their representatives for the parliamentary committee.
The committee includes Senator Rehman Malik and Qamar Zaman Kaira of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Dr Shireen Mazari of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Dr Farooq Sattar and Senator Babar Ghauri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao of the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP), Afrasiyab Khattak of the Awami National Party (ANP), Ijazul Haq of the PML-Z, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed of the Awami Muslim League, Shaibzada Tariqullah and Dr Farid Paracha of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Akram Durrani of the JUI-F.
The meeting is also being attended by prime ministers special advisers Khawaja Zaheer, Barrister Zafarullah along with Interior Secretary Shahid Khan and NACTA Coordinator Hamid Ali Khan.
After chalking out the national action plan to tackle the menace of terrorism, the committee will submit its report to Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
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