National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that an in-camera meeting of the Parliament would be held on Friday to inform parliamentarians of the prevailing law and order situation in the country.
Presiding over the NA session here, he said members of all political parties would attend the special session of the Parliament.
During today’s session Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif lashed out the wrong policies pursed during the dictatorial regimes of General Zia ul Haq and General Pervaiz Musharraf that resulted into terrorism in the country.
He said people in different areas were paying the prices of such policies.
The minister said Pakistan’s security forces, including the Rangers and police, had rendered unmatched sacrifices to eliminate terrorism from the country.
He regretted that terrorists stationed in Afghanistan were relocated to Pakistan with their families, and after their relocation, terrorist activities had increased in the country.
He claimed that some of the terrorists, who relocated to Pakistan, had political backing and were sitting at the Zaman-Park residence of Imran Khan.
The minister said the scheduled in-camera meeting would be attended by the military leadership, who would answer the questions of political leadership.
Earlier, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, independent members of the National Assembly from the South and North Waziristan repsectively, on points of order apprised the House about their concerns pertaining to terrorism resurgence in the newly merged districts of the erstwhile tribal areas.
Muhammad Jamal Ud Din of MMAP from South Waziristan urged the Speaker to allow him along with the independent members to present the on ground situation of the newly merged tribal districts and the possible consequences of any operation on the lives of the local masses already impacted by the two decades long war on terror.
