Sharif resolves to eliminate terrorism from Pakistan
3 Feb 2016 3:43 AM IST
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday reaffirmed Paksitan’s “unflinching” resolve that terrorism will be eliminated from “every nook and corner” of the country as he vowed to defeat forces threatening the children from going to schools.
Sharif chaired a high-level meeting to review the progress on the implementation of National Action Plan all over the country.
The meeting was briefed about different stages of implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), with Sharif saying that successful implementation of NAP was an imperative for everyone, according to a statement.
The Prime Minister stated that “terrorism will be eliminated from every nook and corner of the country”.
“He also stated that the national resolve to fight terrorism and extremism is unflinching and those who are threatening our kids from going to schools will be defeated,” according to the statement.
He chaired a similar high-level meeting three days ago during which he was briefed in detail on the January 20 Bacha Khan University attack in Charsadda that killed 21 people mostly students and the investigations made
so far. Chief of army staff General Raheel Sharif, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence
Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar, National Security Advisor Lt. General (R) Nasser Khan Janjua and other senior civil and military officials attended the meeting.
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Pakistani authorities have sealed 182 ‘madrassas’ since the deadly Peshawar school attack in 2014, in a countrywide crackdown on religious seminaries allegedly involved in extremism, a media report said on Monday. The madarassas were closed in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of their involvement in promoting extremism and other suspicious activities, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency reported. The action was taken under the National Action Plan (NAP) that was put in place after militants stormed an army school in December, 2014 killing at least 150 people, mostly schoolchildren.
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