Pakistan National Security Council convened after terror attacks

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of Pakistan’s National Security Council (NSC) was convened on Wednesday to review security measures following terror attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a local daily reported.
The prime minister presided over the meeting, which was attended by the defense and interior ministers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, the three armed-services chiefs, the director general of Inter-Services Intelligence, and the national security advisor.
The meeting was called after 26 people were killed in two successive attacks in neighboring Afghanistan.
In light of a series of deadly suicide bombings and targeted killings, the security situation along Pakistan’s eastern and western borders was also discussed, Geo News reported.
In Quetta, more than a dozen people, including members of the Hazara Shiite community, have been killed.
Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday visited Quetta and met with Hazara leaders protesting the continued spate of killings.
After observing and analyzing the security situation in Quetta, he offered his condolences to bereaved families and prayed for the deceased. “Those who targeted them shall suffer twice as much,” he said.