Peshawar Press Club (PPC) and Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) in collaboration with Pakhtunkhwa Awareness Movement (PAM) arranged a dialogue to prepare recommendations for the parliamentary committee on anti-terrorism and help prevent terrorism in the country. The dialogue, besides academia, lawyers, doctors was also participated by representatives of trading community and other walks of life.
Addressing the dialogue, president, PPC, Nasir Hussain, chairman PAM, Shakeel Waheedullah Khan, Khalid Ayub, Aslam Khan, Ishfaq Bacha, Barrister Hasham Khan Raza, Moazam Butt, Ajmal Khattak, Waris Khan Khalil, Malik Ihsan Elahi and other speakers presented their joint recommendations and said that taking serious measures for provision of protection to the lives and properties of the people is the need of the hour.
The speakers called for training police on the pattern of Pakistan army and its equipping with latest automatic weapons, bringing further improvement in the performance of intelligence agencies, restricting the movement of Afghan refugees to camps and their repatriation, indiscriminate care of the all injured children, reviewing of internal and external policies, constitution of local level welfare committees to monitor the situation.
The speakers also demanded the declaring of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as war affected and conducting of impartial inquiry into local and foreign assistance in this regard. They also demanded guaranteeing fundamental rights to the people of FATA to put them on the track of progress and development and publishing of the complete details of the families involved in terrorism.
In this connection, a committee with president PPC, Nasir Hussain in the chair and comprising of Mustajab Khan, Aslam Khan, Shakeel Waheedullah Khan, Afzal Shah, Malik Ihsan Elahi, Barrister Hasham Raza, Ashfaq Bacha, Khalid Ayub, Waris Khan and Jameel Chitrali as members to present their recommendations to Prime Minister and Minister for Interior.
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