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Call to make public anti-terror policy to build national consensus
Pakistan's main opposition party on Friday asked the government to make public its anti-terror policy if it sincerely wanted to build a national consensus to combat the menace.
- By Shahid Hussain, Correspondent
- Published: 23:53 October 10, 2008
Islamabad: Pakistan's main opposition party on Friday asked the government to make public its anti-terror policy if it sincerely wanted to build a national consensus to combat the menace.
The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif made the demand following a two-day in-camera briefing to the country's lawmakers by the director general of military operations Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha.
The members of the Senate and the National Assembly are due to reassemble in a third joint sitting on Monday for a debate behind closed doors in the light of the briefing.
PML-N parliamentary head and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, told a news conference that Lt Gen Pasha spoke about the ongoing military operations and the briefing added little to what was known.
To make the whole exercise meaningful, the government must "inform the parliament in detail of its... role in the so-called war on terrorism", he said.
Khan said the government must enlighten the parliament whether it was following the policy that had been pursued by former president Pervez Musharraf to great harm to the country.
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