Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is going to take important decisions in consultation with the provincial governments and army for getting around the bottlenecks in the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), sources told Daily Times.

Sources said that a meeting would be held in this regard soon after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns from New York. The meeting would be held at the Prime Minister’s Office. Chief ministers, ministers for interior and finance, national security advisor, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) director general (DG), Intelligence Bureau DG and other high officials are likely to attend it.

This is an important meeting as the government would finalise a strategy for seminaries, their registration, curriculum and their sources of funding.

After the meeting, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan would summon a meeting of clerics from across the country and would take them into confidence on seminary reforms, sources disclosed.

They added that National Security Advisor Nasir Janjua would present his report regarding the implementation of NAP and bottlenecks faced by the provincial and federal departments. A draft of new legislation is also expected to be passed in the meeting. ISI DG Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar and Military Intelligence DG would brief the participants on the intelligence and combing operations and their outcome. The meeting would approve new legislation and amendments in the present laws to overcome the legal lacuna as provinces wanted same legislation across the country to handle terrorism cases, sources concluded.