National security issues: Military officials to brief parliamentary leaders tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan military officers will brief parliamentary leaders of the National Assembly and the Senate on the current national security issues on Wednesday (tomorrow).

Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has called a meeting of the parliamentary leaders of both houses of the Parliament on Wednesday (tomorrow) at 2pm in the Committee Room No 2, Parliament House, Islamabad.

The meeting would be held in the chair of the speaker National Assembly.

In this regard, the National Assembly has issued official communication to the parliamentary leaders, inviting them to attend the meeting.

The speaker National Assembly also asked Federal Minister for Defence Pervaiz Khattak, Interior Minister Ijaz Ahmed Shah, Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur, Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar, and Information Minister Shibli Faraz.

Advisor to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs, Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Security Division Dr Moeed Yusuf, and Attorney General for Pakistan Khalid Javed Khan have also been asked to attend the meeting.

The speaker National Assembly also sent special invitations to President Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Masood Khan and Prime Minister AJK Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan and Governor Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon, and Caretaker Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Mir Afzal.

The parliamentary leaders invited to attend the meeting include Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Azam Khan Swati, Minister for Narcotics Control, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Asad Mahmood Chaudhary, Tariq Bashir Cheema, Federal Minister for Housing and Works, Mohammad Akhtar Mengal, Dr Khalid Magbool Siddiqui, Khalid Hussain Magsi, Ghous Bux Khan Mahar, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Federal Minister for Railways, and Amir Haider Azam Khan.

Senators' Mushahid Ullah Khan, Sherry Rehman, Muhammad Ali Khan Saif, Mir Kabeer Ahmad Muhammad Shahi, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar, Sirajul Haq, Sitara Ayaz, Dr Jehanzeb Jamaldini, Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, Anwarul Haq Kakar, and Aurangzeb Khan have been invited to attend the meeting.

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