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A key meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) has begun in Parliament, with senior political and military leaders in attendance, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, and other officials. The meeting is also being attended by provincial leaders, including Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti, and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, who represented his province in the absence of PTI members. Governors and IGPs from all four provinces are also in the attendance. However, BNP chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal was invited but did not attend the meeting. The opposition, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had earlier announced its participation in the committee's deliberations, but changed its decision late on Monday night and linked their attendance in the session to their meeting with party founder. Speaking at a press conference at the Information Cell of the Civil Secretariat in Peshawar, PTI Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram had said that the PTI would attend the meeting because it was related to the national security. Akram said that terrorist incidents were increasing in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and the police were combating terrorist attacks. He added that if the federal government was thinking of an operation against terrorists, it should bring the matter to parliament first. "Terrorism can be fought if the nation stands with the government and the institutions. When terrorists know that the nation is united, they cannot attack," he said, adding: "If an operation against terrorists does not receive the public support, the PTI will not support it." The high-level security meeting convened in parliament comes after last week's attack by the outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) militants. The militants targeted train tracks and held over 440 passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security forces in a remote mountain pass in Bolan district. The military successfully cleared the train and rescued the hostages, reporting the killing of 33 attackers during the operation. Before the rescue mission, the terrorists had killed 26 passengers. Additionally, four security personnel lost their lives during the operation to free the hostages.
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