RAWALPINDI: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly, Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah Friday said the entire nation was united to fight terrorism and the time had come to arrive at a final decision to wipe out the elements taking lives of innocent people.

Speaking to media representatives here at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Shah said: “We are thinking why our security personnel and civilians are being targeted. We must sit together and the government will have to take a final decision against terrorists.”

Shah was visiting the hospital to inquire after the health of security personnel injured in the recent bombings in Bannu and Rawalpindi.

Former federal ministers Qamar Zaman Kaira and Nazar Muhammad Gondal also accompanied him.

Shah said leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) had categorically stated that it would extend all-out support to the government in its decision to tackle the elements carrying out subversive activities in various parts of the country.

The opposition leader said the PPP would not leave the government alone under any circumstances for the cause of national sovereignty and democracy, adding that the PPP and the entire nation stood by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Answering a question, he said the PPP in its tenure had purged Swat and Malakand divisions of terrorists after taking the parliament into confidence, but added that now was not the time for scoring political points.

He said the writ of the state must be maintained at all costs as any weakness on that front would encourage the enemies of the country.