Nawaz Sharif postpones APC

[Leader]

New security policy: Nawaz Sharif postpones APC


Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif have decided to postpone the all parties conference (APC) on the country’s security situation, The Express Tribune has learnt.

According to sources, the two brothers met at Prime Minister Nawaz’s Raiwind residence on Sunday to discuss national security affairs, the energy policy, Afghanistan-related issues and the upcoming presidential elections.

My Comment: What the hell is that suppose to mean, are these two goons deciding everything, while all other relevant departments are courtiers?

During the meeting, Nawaz and Shahbaz agreed to put off the APC until the new National Security Policy was completed, the sources said. According to them, the proposed policy is still being drafted.

The sources said that the two leaders also discussed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s decision to boycott the APC and decided Premier Nawaz would approach party chairman Imran Khan personally in the coming days to convince him otherwise.

According to sources, Imran has severe reservations over security in the areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkha – where his party is currently in power – which border Afghanistan. They said the premier intends to take the PTI chief onboard with regards to the new National Security Policy and other measures to improve law and order in K-P.

The sources added that Premier Nawaz will also try to persuade Imran on the necessity of US drone strikes in the country’s tribal areas.

According to them, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership, after being briefed by the army and security agencies, has changed its stance on the CIA-led campaign and now views it as a vital means to counter terrorists.


Mamnoon to address MPAs

PML-N presidential nominee Mamnoon Hussain will address the party’s members of the Punjab Assembly today (Monday).

Talking to The Express Tribune, Hussain said that he would take the PML-N MPAs into confidence over his nomination for president. “I will also thank them for endorsing me as the party’s presidential candidate,” he added.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif will also address the gathering of the party’s 302 MPAs today.
According to sources, Hussain’s address is part of his campaign for the presidential polls. They added that Punjab Assembly Speaker Sardar Sher Ali Khan Gorchani has already called a session for July 30 for the election and has directed all assembly members to reach the house by 10am.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 29th, 2013.

New security policy: Nawaz Sharif postpones APC – The Express Tribune


shameful, nothing less !!

 

[Fracker]

This is meant to happen... The seriousness shown by IK would have resultant same. First he call for one to one "Close-Door" meeting, then he started to cry on media to protest bla bla.. For what? Since he is not sincere to Pakistani Nation to resolve the issue?

Ps: This is fake news, there is no such decision been made so far. And I hope they don't, leave this joker out of APC.

 

[Edevelop]

@Leader

I thought PTI was not interested in attending APC ? What difference does it make to you ?

How about you let PML-N complete the 100 days it has promised. There is no point playing guessing games about drones now as nothing has been finalized. As per the article, it will be discussed with Imran Khan so ap ke mer baani magar ap thora hosla rakay

 

[Leader]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakist...s-visit-postponed-over-security-concerns.html

also the master planner of nawaz sharif's APC, postponed his visit.

The much-awaited visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry has been postponed once again after his original travel plan was leaked to the media, official sources told The Express Tribune.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakist...ned-over-security-concerns.html#ixzz2aPhtPHcW

 

[Awesome]

After talking so much trash against IK, inko ab jootay parhne chahiye.

 

[Leader]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/war-ag...rone-strike-kills-seven-north-waziristan.html

this drone strike happened yesterday..

 

[darkinsky]

is hamaam me saab ne nange hain

british playboy who barked so much about stopping NATO supplies didnt stop it after getting the KPK government

the ganjas didnt stop drone attacks

and these guys were the same people who didnt tire talking bad against the previous govt for not stopping the drone attacks

the PMLN and PTI should both resign if they have a little shame left

 

[arushbhai]

This simply tells the level of mentality imran has. He would prefer to go to UK and party with different actress and save indian elephants but he has too much ego to sit with other political leaders in APC.

 

[SBD-3]

is hamaam me saab ne nange hain

british playboy who barked so much about stopping NATO supplies didnt stop it after getting the KPK government

the ganjas didnt stop drone attacks

and these guys were the same people who didnt tire talking bad against the previous govt for not stopping the drone attacks

the PMLN and PTI should both resign if they have a little shame left

Hah, and this comes from the bacha of London based haleem farosh Mutahida Qawali Party. Get a life dude! We all know how good your thugs were at governence. Karachi without Taliban is losing 10-12 citizens everyday to militant wings of "stakeholders" of the city.

 

[darkinsky]

Hah, and this comes from the bacha of London based haleem farosh Mutahida Qawali Party. Get a life dude! We all know how good your thugs were at governence. Karachi without Taliban is losing 10-12 citizens everyday to militant wings of "stakeholders" of the city.

hey little boi, why are you trying to shove MQM here? MQM didnt have any interior ministry or related to it

why doesnt PMLN mr bean solve the karachi problem now since you have the interior ministry dear?

what im saying is ganja used to bullshitt so much about shooting the drones, not allowing drone attacks, playboy doing dharnas in karachi to stop the NATO containers

what happened to it?

its time to fullfill the promises you made, or resign if you have a little shame?

 

[Leader]

kindly take your immature fight in some relevant thread, else it will be reported !

 

[Jazzbot]

Yet another slap on the faces of idiots who were blaming that APC wasn't called due to IK's visit to UK.. Your clown leader has postponed it due to security reasons. BEAT THAT.

 

[Leader]

Nawaz Sharif has been back in office for nearly two months, but has yet to convene the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC), the prime minister-led advisory and consensus-building body on national security issues. The fact that Nawaz has yet to convene the DCC is disappointing. There were expectations that he would immediately push for the institutionalisation of the DCC as a medium for civil-military dialogue. For over a decade, his party has called for developing a permanent secretariat for the DCC and creating the role of a ‘federal security adviser’.

Shortly before the 1999 coup, none other than Sartaz Aziz drafted a proposal for revamping the DCC. The PML-N has not had an opportunity to realise the proposal, until now. But the party remained a vocal proponent of building up the DCC even when it was out of power at the federal level. In 2002, the PML-N again called for bolstering the body. The same proposal is mentioned in the 2006 Charter of Democracy, which the PML-N has co-drafted, signed and supports.

Despite being out of power, the PML-N has had the time to develop a concrete proposal for developing the DCC. It had perfect opportunity to do so in the past five years as head of the opposition and in the one-month transition period before Nawaz took power after the elections.

Instead, Nawaz has shown a tendency to deal with national security issues in a highly personalised fashion. He has given himself the defence and foreign affairs portfolios, though Sartaj Aziz plays the role of foreign minister. Rather than formally convening the DCC, he has relied on a kitchen cabinet and private meetings with the army chief and the security agencies.

The prime minister is well within his right to meet with whom he chooses to. But national security policy cannot be developed in the same overbearing way Lahore is run. It requires all relevant senior civil and military officials to be present in the same forum to discuss and debate pressing matters of national interest, enabling the prime minister to make an informed decision.

The DCC is effectively a national security council —- a term that evokes strong feelings among Pakistan’s political class. Previous military rulers, including Ayub Khan, Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf, called for the creation of the National Security Council to serve as the anchor of a military-guided ‘democracy’. But the army, under General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, has backed away from such a perspective and instead has called on the civilians on multiple occasions to develop a national counterterrorism policy.

The PPP utilised a combination of the troika and the DCC to deliberate on national security policy, mainly in respect of relations with the United States. But after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was sacked by the Supreme Court, the DCC was convened less frequently and the troika meetings between the president, the prime minister and the army chief once again took precedence.

Nawaz has not only continued with this practice of personal meetings (though President Asif Ali Zardari has been excluded), but he has also attempted to use all-parties conferences (APC) as a mechanism to develop a national consensus. Already, his attempts to convene an APC have been hindered by Imran Khan, who left the country when Nawaz was to hold an APC. Imran also requested a private meeting with Nawaz and Kayani, arguing that an APC is of limited utility.

Imran is key given that his party runs Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and strongly supports peace talks with the country’s primary insurgent threat. But in the end, the prime minister must own national security policy. And that ownership is best represented through the DCC, not through reserving ministries for oneself and holding one-on-one meetings. Consultation must ultimately take place through formal bodies with all major principals in attendance, so that the diplomatic economic, and security implications of potential policies are addressed and all senior officials are on the same page. Under the previous government, the DCC was dormant till the Mumbai attack. It might take a crisis for the current government to get serious about the DCC.



Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/national-political-issues/267570-nawaz-dcc.html#ixzz2aPubLFpP

 

[airmarshal]

Nawaz Shairf or his family party has no policy on terrorism. this is proved from his two months old government. The only policy they have is to appease India.

Why do they even need this APC? Its a fig leaf to hide their incompetence. A majority party should have its own policy publicly articulated which then can be debated at different fora.

What will this APC achieve other than rubbish rhetoric which we have heard ad nauseam?

 

[Devil Soul]

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