ISLAMABAD (APP) - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday lauded the efforts of the Army in improving the security situation in South Waziristan Agency. Chairing a meeting here at the PM House, where he was briefed on the prevailing security environment in South Waziristan Agency, the PM directed the concerned agencies to enhance coordination and bring normalcy to the area along the Pak-Afgan border. Gilani said the government was working on an integrated strategy with the army on repatriating all peaceful residents of the area to their homes. Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was present during the briefing. Minister for Information & Broadcasting Sherry Rehman, Advisor to the PM on Interior Rehman Malik, DG ISI Nadeem Taj and senior Army Officers also attended the briefing. The PM said majority of the people of Federally Administered Tribal Area were highly patriotic, peace loving, and the government will make all-out efforts to ameliorate their hardships. The COAS informed the PM that the Army was not withdrawing from South Waziristan, it is only consolidating its position after a long operation in the area. Not one battalion has been withdrawn and no negotiations are being held with any terrorists or criminals. Meanwhile, the NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has strongly condemned the missile attack allegedly carried out by a US drone in Bajaur Agency in which several people had been killed, saying it was a direct attack on the sovereignty of the country. 'Pakhtun is a peaceful nation who believes in resolving the disputes through traditional Jirga system. Use of force had just invited destructions in which thousands of people were either killed or displaced', Hoti said in a statement on Saturday. 'We have been deliberately engaged in the bloody war and we can no longer afford it', he added. The Chief Minister said that they were independent in decision making and resolving the issues through talks. Hoti said such attacks on the Pakhtun soil were highly condemnable and a conspiracy government. 'Such tactics could not budge the provincial government from its stance of negotiation for peace in the troubled regions of the province and its adjacent tribal belt', he said. He maintained that some elements who wanted to sabotage the peace process could not be allowed to succeed in their heinous designs, saying every dispute would be resolved through joint efforts of the allied parties.