Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting here to discuss the progress of the military's ongoing anti-terror operation "Zarb-i-Azb" in North Waziristan.Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif, Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar, Director General of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif and other senior civil and military officials attended the meeting, Dawn online reported.
Operation Zarb-i-Azb was launched by the Pakistan Army on June 15 last year following a brazen militant attack on Karachi's international airport and failure of peace talks between the government and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) negotiators.Over a million people have fled after the offensive in North Waziristan, which is aimed at wiping out longstanding militant strongholds in the area, which borders Afghanistan.Matters related to the return of temporarily dislocated persons (TDPs) were also discussed at the meeting.