The new entity will be subordinated to the Ministry of Defense, will be deployed throughout the country, and will have as its sole responsibility combating terrorism, reviewed the digital version of the Dawn newspaper.
Institutionally it will maintain contact with military and civilian agencies related to tasks of security and intelligence, especially its counter-terrorist wings.

As suggested by Sharif, the South Asian nation finished assembling yesterday a National Plan of Action against Terrorism in response to the assault by Taliban to a military academy in the city of Peshawar (to the northwest), on Tuesday 16, during which they killed 149 people, the vast majority of which were children and youth.

One of the measures to be taken is the creation of special counter-terrorist military courts, in order to expeditiously prosecute the perpetrators of events like that, the worst ever to be committed against a civilian institution in Pakistan, .the Prensa Latina News Agency said.

On Friday, Sharif ordered the Attorney General, Salman Butt, to consult legal experts, judiciary organs, and political parties, to finalize the constitutional amendments necessary to the creation of such courts.

Today was laso announced that in the next 24 hours the Ministry of the Interior will take into 'protective custody' six thousand 777 terrorism suspects, legally liable to be subjected to this measure due to the existence of reliable information about their high subversive potential.

The day after the massacre at the military academy, Sharif ordered to lift the moratorium on the death penalty, in effect since 2008, and resume executions in terrorism cases. The first six executions were performed last Sunday in the city of Faisalabad (to the northeast).

Another response was to intensify the military operation against the Taliban in the tribal regions to the northwest, bordering with Afghanistan, historically bastions of the insurgency, and the future extension of the offensive to urban areas.(KH)