ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif here on Monday.

“Matters pertaining to national and regional security were discussed during the meeting,” according to a press release issued by the Prime Minister House.

The meeting on Monday was the first one between Prime Minister Sharif and the army chief since the Oct 14 corps commanders conference when the military expressed what was described by the ISPR as serious concern over “feeding of false and fabricated story of an important security meeting held at PM House and viewed it as breach of national security”.

The two last met on Oct 10 and the meeting had reaffirmed that the army and intelligence agencies would continue to play a lead role in the fight against terrorism which was proceeding smoo­thly and without any discrimination whatsoever with complete consensus among all stakeholders.

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2016