The country’s top military leadership will brief legislators on the rapidly evolving security situation on Tuesday.

Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq has summoned a meeting of the National Assembly’s panel on national security on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The meeting will be held on Tuesday at 1:30 pm.

Since the parliamentary committee on national security has not been officially formed, the members of the standing committees on defence and foreign affairs, as well as cabinet ministers and representatives will attend the meetings.

All four chief ministers are also expected to attend the meeting, while the top military brass will brief the participants. The meeting is expected to be in-camera.

The meeting has been called amid a new wave of terror attacks in the country in recent weeks. In the past month, the Bannu Cantonment was attacked by terrorists, leading to the martyrdom of five soldiers. Security forces had eliminated 16 terrorists in response.

Then Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq had been martyred in a suicide bombing in Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak. A few days later, the Jaffar Express had been hijacked by terrorists in Sibi, leading to the deaths of 26 passengers including 18 members of the armed forces. The ensuing operation had eliminated 33 terrorists.

Visiting Quetta after the attack, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had called for presenting a united front against terrorism in the country.

“Peace can’t be established in Pakistan until terrorism is completely eliminated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan,” the PM had added.