ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has called a meeting of the parliamentary committee on national security on Tuesday (tomorrow) to discuss issues of national security, including talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

According to a press release issued by the National Assembly Secretariat on Sunday, the meeting to be chaired by the speaker will be attended by members of the National Assembly and Senate, the president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir, chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan and chief secretaries of all the four provinces.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2022

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