ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for expediting work on anti-terror laws and said there should be no space for an enemy that had been attacking law-enforcement personnel and civilians persistently.

“They (terrorists) must be prosecuted effectively,” the prime minister said while presiding over a meeting on anti-terror legislation on Monday. It was attended by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif, Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Ashfaq Nadeem, ISI Director General Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam and other senior officials.

The government had earlier promulgated three ordinances on countering terrorism — Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance 2013 (No VII); Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance 2013 (No VIII) and Protection of Pakistan Ordinance 2013.

The three ordinances are being deliberated upon by the National Assembly’s standing committee and have also been laid in the Senate.

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