Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar summoned a National Security Committee (NSC) meeting on Friday after announcing that he would be cutting short his visit to Davos for the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) amidst cross-border intrusions and heightened regional tension between Pakistan and Iran.
The meeting will be attended by cabinet members of the interim government, chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and all three service chiefs.
Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani, leading the Pakistan delegation to the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Kampala, Uganda, will also be returning shortly.
The decision comes as Pakistan carried out ‘highly coordinated’, ‘precision strikes’ on terrorist hideouts in Iran’s Sistan-o-Balochistan province. FM Jilani received also a telephone call from the Foreign Minister of Iran, Hossein Amir Abdollahian. Furthermore, Iranian FM Abdollahian said on the sidelines of WEF, “None of the nationals of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan were targeted by Iranian missiles and drones.”
