ISLAMABAD, May 9: The Special Parliamentary Committee on National Security (SPCNS) condemned on Monday the Abbottabad operation by US commandos against Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and asked the security forces to take measures to thwart any such adventure in future.

Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, who presided over a meeting of the committee at the Parliament House, told reporters that the committee forged a consensus that the incident showed the failure and ineffectiveness of security agencies. The committee said the operation was an encroachment on the country's sovereignty.

The committee, Mr Rabbani said, was provided an insight into the incident by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir.

Members of the committee, according to insiders, expressed apprehensions over non-implementation of any of its recommendations since its formation two years ago.

It reminded the Foreign Office of a brief prepared by the committee before the start of talks with India.

The committee had in April 2009 submitted a 14-point recommendations stressing the need for a paradigm shift in foreign policy and giving priority to dialogue on the use of military force against extremists and terrorists.

The meeting asked the security agencies to take effective steps to ensure that Pakistan's soil was not used for terrorism against its own people or any other country.

It expressed the resolve that the nation was alive to defend the country against any attack on its independence and sovereignty.

Mr Rabbani said the ministry of defence would brief the PNCS on Wednesday on the whole spectrum of national defence and throw light on what had happened between the night of May 1 and 2 in Abbottabad.

Sources said that ISI chief Lt-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha would brief the committee on the agency's achievements in the war on terror, its successes against Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives and intelligence failure in the Abbottabad fiasco.

Mr Rabbani told Dawn that the foreign secretary's briefing was very comprehensive and the committee members had a long session of questions which were responded by him. Minister of State Hina Rabbani Khar, who attended the meeting, also replied to the committee's questions.

He said the members gave suggestions for improvement of the country's foreign policy. The foreign secretary took notes during the meeting.