Islamabad: The top military officials on Monday briefed the participants of Parliamentary Committee on National Security about matters pertaining to national security, foreign affairs, internal and external challenges faced by county.

The Committee met under chairmanship of Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser in Islamabad on Monday.

National Parliamentary and Political leadership, Members of the National Assembly and Senate, Provincial leadership, Prime Minister AJ&K and Military leadership participated in the meeting.

The participants were also briefed about regional and political challenges, especially the situation in Indian illegally Occupied Jummu & Kashmir and Afghanistan.

It was outlined that Pakistan desires peoples’ representative’s government in Afghanistan and Pakistan would continue all-out support for peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Furthermore, it was briefed that Pakistan played a responsible and positive role for peace in Afghanistan.

It was further apprised that Pakistan believes that peace in Afghanistan would pave for regional peace and development.

The participants of the meeting were further informed that Pakistan is making every effort to ensure that the current situation does not give rise to another humanitarian and economic crisis which would add to the plight of the people and in this regard, Pakistan is in constant touch with the international community.

It was also hoped that the territory of Afghanistan would not be used against Pakistan. The meeting was also apprised about the border control system on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Parliamentary and Political leadership expressed satisfaction about Pakistan strategy to tackle internal and external challenges and expressed good wishes for prosperity, development and progress of Afghanistan. They also said that such meetings paved way for harmony and unanimity of views on national issues.

At the end of the briefing, a Question &Answer session was held in which the members of the committee presented their recommendations.

The meeting was attended by Chief Ministers of Sindh, Balochistan, KP, Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, DG ISI Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, DG ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar and other senior Military officers.