ISLAMABAD: Friday’s high-level military meeting decided to proceed with “complete security policy” when discussing “peace talks” with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a proscribed organisation.
All three service chiefs — Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi, and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu — as well as ISI Director General Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Faiz Hamid, and other senior officials attended the national security meeting, which was presided over by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen
Even though it appeared to be a Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee meeting, it wasn’t.
The director general of the Strategic Plans Division, as well as the secretaries of the defence and defence production ministries, are often present at JCSC meetings, but none of them were. Since the army-led discussions with the insurgents in Afghanistan assumed a public persona with briefings before political leaders as well as the Parliamentary Committee on National Security just on topic by the army high brass, it was the first of such sessions, involving all the armed services.
According to the ISPR, the participants decided to react to “the entire spectrum of threats” in line with the “complete security policy.”
