Reported by Pakistan Today
ISLAMABAD: Despite holding some ‘strong reservations’, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Tuesday determined to sustain Operation Azm-e-Istehkam, desiring to destroy terrorism and extremism nationwide.
The PPP leadership and members contemplated the process during Tuesday’s parliamentary party meeting contained in Islamabad.
The party determined to support the ambition after a meticulous argument, according to party insiders.
“The PPP parliamentary party unanimously endorsed Operation Azm-e-Istehkam. However, the party has communicated its concerns to the government regarding the operation”, the insiders.
They appropriated the PPP leadership, which was contradicted about not living conferred on the operation. In reaction, the government confirmed that all stakeholders would be carried into conviction moving forward.
“The PPP emphasised its commitment to national decisions through consultation and reiterated its support for all anti-terrorism efforts. The country’s welfare and the people’s safety have always been the PPP’s top priority,” a party insider declared.
On Saturday, the country’s civil and military leadership planned to establish a new movement to fight the revival of terrorism. Prime Minister Shehbaz stressed the need for all government organisations to collectively fight this danger instead of depending on one.
A session of the Central Apex Committee on NAP, followed by key cabinet associates, consented to Azm-e-Istehkam” after agreement among all the stakeholders, including the four provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s headquarters informed on Monday that ‘Azm-e-Istehkam’ would not be a kinetic operation like the last Zarb-e-Azab and Rah-e-Najaat; instead, it desired to reinvigorate the performance of the Revised National Action Plan (NAP).
“Azm-e-Istehkam is a multi-domain, multi-agency, whole-of-the-system national vision for enduring stability in Pakistan. It is meant to reinvigorate and re-energise the ongoing implementation of Revised National Action Plan, initiated after the consensus across the political spectrum,” it articulated.
The Prime Minister’s Office statement claimed that the recently “announced vision for enduring stability named Azm-e-Istehkam was being erroneously misunderstood and compared with earlier launched kinetic operations.”
“The previous kinetic operations were conducted to physically dislodge terrorists from their known locations which had become no-go areas and compromised the writ of the state. These operations required mass displacement of the local population and systematic clearance of affected areas,” it articulated.
“There are no such no-go areas in the country since the ability of terrorist entities to carry out large-scale organised operations inside Pakistan was decisively degraded by earlier kinetic operations,” the statement counted. “Therefore, no large-scale military operation is being contemplated where population displacement will be required.”
Repeating that Azm-e-Istehkam sought to energise the continuing intelligence-based kinetic operations “to decisively root out the nebulous and shadowy presence of remnants of terrorists”, their facilitators and damaging extremism to provide a safe atmosphere in the nation for its financial expansion.
“This will include political, diplomatic, legal and information prongs apart from already continuing operations by all law-enforcement agencies. This should address all the misunderstandings and settle unnecessary debate on the subject,” the statement terminated.
