Parliamentary body on national security approves 14-point recommendations

The Parliamentary Committee on National Security has formally approved the 14-point recommendations on the resolution passed by the joint in-camera session of the parliament last year. The meeting of the committee was held here on Wednesday with its chairman Mian Raza Rabbani in the chair, in which members put their signatures on the draft of recommendations.
The parliamentary committee on national security recommended concrete steps to halting US drone strikes and eliminating training centres of suicide attackers in the country.
The sources said that the committee recommended that concrete measures should be taken to end drone raids, while the process to send Afghan refugees back to their country should also be accelerated.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Rabbani said that the approved recommendations would be presented in National Assembly on Thursday (today). He said that the committee will remain a permanent body of the parliament and would provide guidelines to the government on national security when needed.
"This is another display of unity of political parties keeping the national interests supreme and setting aside petty difference. The committee is united on issues pertaining to national stability and security," he said.
He also acknowledged the contribution of all the political parties for adopting unanimous draft recommendations like the joint sitting of the parliament that also passed a unanimous resolution for combating terrorism and militancy posing grave threats to the sovereignty of the country.
He said that the Committee has completed its job in the best national interest and hoped that the government would form national security policy giving weight to the recommendations of the committee.
"These recommendations are aimed at achieving internal stability, sovereignty, national independence and maintaining strong and stable relationship with the world at large," he remarked.
He termed the unanimous recommendations as a milestone achieved by the 17-member committee comprising different political parties but showing unity on issues of national importance.
Rabbani said that countrys security interests come first and we will not allow anybody to carry out drone attacks inside Pakistans territory and it is intolerable. These recommendations will lead to peace and stability. There is a lot for the countrys security and sovereignty in the recommendations that would be reflected in the coming days, he maintained.