KP arms licences with countrywide validity alarm senators

As many as 1,530 security personnel had recently been recruited to provide foolproof security to the Chinese working on Diamer Bhasha dam.

It was decided that the National Counterterrorism Authority (Nacta) will give an in-camera briefing to the committee on the security of Chinese residing in Pakistan.

Two members of the committee, Aijaz Ahmad Dhamra and Fateh Mohammad Hasni, took strong exception to the absence of Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan from the meeting.

They demanded the chair to ask Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take action against Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for his undeclared boycott of the committee proceedings.

Talha Mehmood said a letter to this effect had already been written to the prime minister.

He said the ministry had informed the prime minister that the panel met six to seven times a month and thus it is not possible for the minister to attend its meetings.