ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to attend the National Assembly session on Wednesday, following the deadly Quetta attack that killed more than seventy people earlier this week.
Sources disclosed that the prime minister will give a policy statement with regard to terrorism in the country. It was also learned that Nawaz Sharif will address the assembly and brief them on the security situation and terrorism incidents in the country that had taken place before the PML-N came into power and what the current situation was.
The prime minister will also pay tribute to the security forces for their sacrifices in eliminating terrorism from the country, according to sources. Also, PM Nawaz will urge all political parties in Pakistan to forge unity against terrorism.
On Monday, Balochsitan Bar Association President Bilal Anwar Kasi was gunned down by armed assailants in Quetta. His body was brought to the Civil Hospital Quetta in the presence of a large number of lawyers, when a suicide bomb blast took place inside the hospital. More than seventy people were killed and scores of others were injured in the attack that gripped the nation with shock and grief. The Islamic State (Daesh) claimed responsibility for the attack on the Civil Hospital Quetta.
