All out efforts to be continued for durable peace: Nawaz

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said that a durable and permanent peace was top priority of the government for which all out efforts would be continued.

The Prime Minister stated this while talking to members of government's negotiating committee which called on him at the Prime Minister House.

The meeting was attended by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Affairs Irfan Siddiqui, Major (Retd) Mohammad Amir, Rustum Shah Mohmand and Rahim Ullah Yusufzai.

Earlier, a meeting of the Government negotiating committee was held. The committee reviewed Taliban's ceasefire announcement and sorrowful acts in Khyber Agency and Islamabad.

The committee termed that continuation of such kinds of incidents would damage the negotiating process for maintaining peace.

Members of the committee later called on the Prime Minister and presented him their proposals for an effective future strategy.