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Digital Desk, Islamabad. A high-level Pakistani military with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group discussed peace talks and decided to pursue the matter in accordance with a comprehensive security strategy.
According to the Dawn report, the national security meeting chaired by the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Nadeem Raza was attended by the chiefs of the three services – Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Navy Chief Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi and Chief of Air Staff, Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu, ISI. Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, Director General, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Faiz Hamid and other senior officers participated.
A JCSC meeting is usually attended by the Director General of the Strategic Planning Division and the Secretaries of the Ministries of Defense and Defense Production, but none of them were there.
Dawn reported, this was the first such meeting, involving all the armed services, since military-led talks with militants in Afghanistan led to a discussion on the issue by political leaders and top military officials for the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. A public profile was assumed with the briefing.
The forum was briefed on the review of the specific national security situation for the western border, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the ISPR said of the meeting.
It added that rapid developments in the area of strategic and traditional policies, the importance of peace in Afghanistan for sustainable development in the region and operational preparedness of the armed forces were also discussed.
The ISPR said the participants resolved to respond to the full spectrum of threats in accordance with a comprehensive security strategy.
According to the Dawn report, the military leadership had said in a briefing before the political leadership that it wanted to give peace a chance, but would respond with full force if the TTP did not abide by the agreement.
IANS
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