Provincial committees to oversee NAP implementation

ISLAMABAD: A meeting presided by National Security Advisor Lt. General (retd) Nasir Janjua was held here on Friday and attended by representatives from all provinces and Azad Kashmir.

A decision to implement the 20-point agenda of the National Action Plan (NAP) was taken during the meeting. Committees headed by chief ministers and the Prime Minister Azad Kashmir were also formed to oversee the implementation. 

According to sources, Nasir Janjua said that on the directives of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the NAP implementation committees would function under the leadership of the chief ministers and Prime Minister Azad Kashmir. Janjua added that if there are any issues he can be contacted directly.

The Prime Minister on October 4 chaired a high level meeting over NAP where it was agreed that seamless coordination between federal and provincial governments as well as all LEAs is needed for achieving desired results.

It was also agreed to further improve the collection, collation, analysis and use of intelligence input for defeating the designs of enemies.

The meeting was attended by Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, CM Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, CM Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak, CM Balochistan Mir Sana Ullah Khan Zehri, and CM Gilgit-Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez ur Rehman.

It was also attended by Minister for Finance Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Minister for Interior Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Minister for Information Pervaiz Rashid, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, SAPM Tariq Fatemi, NSA, Lt Gen (R) Nasser Khan Janjua, DG ISI Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, DG IB Aftab Sultan, SPM Fawad Hasan Fawad, DG MO Maj. Gen Sahir Shamshad Mirza and DG MI Maj Gen Nadeem Zaki Manj.