ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League (N) Ahsan Iqbal has said that a comprehensive national strategy should be evolved to deal with menace of terrorism.
Talking to a private TV channel, the PMLN leader said the country should have a comprehensive national strategy through a debate in the parliament to deal with terrorism. “We must have a debate how to deal with the issue of terrorism because the policy which has been followed so far has not much contained terrorism”, he added. He suggested that government should immediately hold debate in the National Assembly to develop consensuses to fight terrorism. He expressed the hope that a comprehensive strategy against terrorism will soon be brought in the parliament for debate.
Ahsan Iqbal further said comprehensive and complete strategy is required using all political, social and economics aspects to deal with terrorism, adding “the military option should be the last option to deal with terrorism”.
“We should change the policy of pervious government where people in the parliament were unaware of the fact that what is happening in the country,” he added. To a question he said present government has inherited a bankrupt economy.