Foreign elements behind terrorism

ISLAMABAD - In-camera session of the Parliament that started here on Wednesday for an indefinite period is aiming at formulation of a new ‘national policy on terror war’ after pouring in vantage points from all parliamentary parties.

According to sources privy to the in-camera joint sitting of two Houses of the Parliament, the session would continue on Thursday (today) for a question answer session. The sources told TheNation that after the question answer session of the parliamentarians with the military officials, the session would be made open for debate as well as for media from Monday onward. Still the sources were not sure about the possibility of opening up the session after the military part of it is over and could not rule out continuation of the in-camera debate.

However, the sources said, “At the end of the session the Parliament would come up with the formulation of a new national policy on the war on terror that would not be the policy of any one party or coalition.” The sources further said that the country was in dire need of such a national policy in the wake of a critical phase of the international war on terror being pushed entirely into Pakistan from its main theatre Afghanistan.

Therefore, the government as well as the army had felt the need for evolving a national policy and that too by the Parliament in order to restore its lost supremacy, the sources said. This policy, the sources added, primarily would legitimise the tribal Laskhars collaborating with the army to fight against Taliban by according not only the army’s but entire nation’s support to them.