Federal govt to provide all resources to provinces for NAP implementation

ISLAMABAD: A high level security meeting presided by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was held at the Prime Minister House today where the National Action Plan was discussed at length.

The Army Chief General Raheel Shareef, DG ISI Lt General Rizwan Akhtar, Finace Minister Ishaq Dar and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar attended the meeting.

It was decided in the meeting that the federal government will provide all resources to the provincial governments to implement NAP, sources told Geo News.

All intelligence agencies were asked to communicate with provincial government, it was learnt.

Participants at the meeting expressed their consensus over implementing all 20 points of the NAP.

The interior minister will inform the parliament over the decisions which took place in the meeting today.

The meeting comes in the wake of a suicide bomb explosion in Quetta on Monday which killed 74 and injured over 112 people.

The explosion at Quetta’s Civil Hospital took place when Balochistan Bar Association President Bilal Kasi's body was being brought to the emergency department. He was gunned down at Mano Jan Road earlier. Former Balochistan Bar President Baz Muhammad Kakar who accompanied Kasi was injured in the attack. He later succumbed to his wounds at the hospital.