ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir on Monday held a meeting on key security concerns, including a recent PTI protest in Islamabad in which several lives were lost over the course of demonstrations spanning multiple days.
The government did not share details of the meeting with the media, but a source privy to the meeting told that the huddle discussed the Nov 24 D-Chowk protest and vowed to spare nobody involved in violence and the killing of law enforcers.
“It was decided that no leniency will be shown for those who killed security personnel and destroyed state property,” the source said. The meeting, attended by top security officials, also discussed a surge in terrorism, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
The huddle also took stock of a renewed threat by KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur about another protest march to Islamabad if the government did not release PTI founder Imran Khan from jail. The source said the meeting also remembered the Army Public School tragedy on the occasion of its 10th anniversary on Monday. Security officials gave a detailed briefing on internal and external security matters.
