Committee meets today to redefine war on terror policy

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Committee on National Security would resume its task on Monday (today) to prepare a set of recommendations to help government redefine and revisit its war on terror policy, especially its terms of engagements with NATO and US in the operations against Taliban. Following the NATO attack on Pakistan Army check-posts in Mohmand Agency and killing of 24 Army personnel, the government had blocked the NATO supplies from Pakistan and also got vacated Shamsi airbase from the US. Besides taking these decision the matter was referred to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security which had already held a couple of sessions on the matter and was briefed on the matter by the DG Military Operations Pakistan Army and other senior officials from Foreign Ministry. The committee would resume its deliberations at Parliament House and according to some members it would take another couple of sessions to jot down the recommendations for complete revisit to the country's engagement with United States in the ongoing war on terror. Another member in the committee informed The Nation that it would take another week or so to complete the deliberations on this issue and to furnish report. He further informed that after accomplishing the task they would take up the memo issue and would look into its nitty-gritty, as they were to take up memo issue and in this connection they had asked the relevant quarters to give them briefing when the Prime Minister brought the matter of Salala check posts attack issue to the committee. Sources in the committee informed that it would not be possible for the committee to take up the memo issue till the last week of the this month as the committee would consume another couple of weeks to accomplish its report on the NATO attacks on Pakistan Army check-posts and then it would be presented before the Joint Sitting of the Parliament which would be summoned on submission of their recommendations to the Parliament. So the committee could not take up memo controversy till the last week of this month or first week of January.

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