PM chairs security committee meeting

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was chairing a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on National Security (CCNS) at the PM House on Monday. The committee was expected to discuss a number of issues relating to internal and external security. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam and others were present at the meeting. Formed last August, the CCNS is the highest civil-military coordination forum on matters of national security and defence. The top security body is headed by the prime minister and has foreign, defence, interior and finance ministers; Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and the three services chiefs as its members. Earlier this month, the committee had met and decided to continue seeking opportunities for peace with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).