Committee of parliamentary leaders to oversee NAP implementation: Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday that a committee comprising parliamentary leaders would oversee the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).

“The committee of the parliamentary leaders would be headed by either the prime minister or foreign minister,” Chaudhry told reporters outside the National Assembly.

Earlier, the Ministry of Interior said law enforcement agencies had taken 121 people into preventive detention as of today in compliance with NAP.

In a notification, the Interior Ministry said the provincial governments have taken over the management and administrative control of 182 madaris, 34 schools/ colleges as part of NAP.

Provincial governments have also taken over five hospitals, 163 dispensaries, 184 ambulances and eight offices, the notification added.

The operation against proscribed organisations is an ongoing process and continues under National Action Plan 2014. Interior Ministry is actively working in coordination with provincial governments and law enforcing agencies, it further read.

The federal government on Tuesday took as many as 44 members affiliated with proscribed organisations, including Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar's brother, Mufti Abdul Rauf, and son, Hammad Azhar, into "preventive detention" under NAP.