ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday chaired a high-level consultative meeting to review aggravating law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s planned long march on Islamabad on October 4.
Sources said Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, Information inister Attaullah Tarar and Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry attended the meeting.
Interior Minister Naqvi briefed the prime minister on the law and order situation in KP, while the law minister gave a briefing on constitutional and legal matters relating to the province, sources said.
The interior minister also briefed the meeting on reported backchannel contacts with the leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources said.
The meeting considered various constitutional and legal options to address the situation in the province, according to sources.
The meeting also discussed backchannel contacts with PTI leaders and different legal and constitutional options to deal with the situation in KP, according to the sources.
The prime minister decided that all stakeholders would be taken into confidence before any decision was taken regarding KP.
According to the sources, he is also expected to meet President Asif Ali Zardari on the matter.
The consultations come amid mounting tensions between the federal and PTI-led KP governments over security, governance and the PTI’s planned march on Islamabad.