ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The government decided on Thursday not to announce a timeframe for withdrawal of troops from Swat unless complete peace was restored in the valley.

Informed sources told Dawn that the decision had been taken during a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

According to them, the government believed that normality would return to Swat in the wake of the peace agreement.

Reactions to the agreement by Nato, United States, Britain and other countries also came under discussion.

The meeting decided that militants would not be allowed to carry on their “inimical designs” on the pretext of the enforcement of Sharia.

Later, President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani held a separate meeting and discussed the political and economic situation.