LAHORE – The business community has condemned in severest possible terms the deadly Quetta and Swat blasts, urging all the political parties to take unified stand to weed out the menace of terrorism from the country.
They termed the blast a cowardly act and an ugly attempt to destabilize country aimed at creating an impression of unsafe place in the eyes of international community. LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar said that the government would have to revisit and redesign its anti-terrorism policy. He urged the govt to convene a roundtable of all the political parties and business community representatives to make a consensus policy to cope with law and order related incidents that have jolted the very basis of the country.  LCCI former SVP Abdul Basit said that it was very strange that despite all efforts, the terrorists were attacking the place of their choice and killing innocent people.
He said that any further delay in taking a strong stand against terrorists would cause undue damage to the country therefore the President, PM and all the Chief Ministers should sit with the politicians and business leaders to evolve a methodology to get rid of this menace.