The National Security Committee has announced to observe countrywide Black Day on May 9 every year.
The decision to this effect was taken at the Committee meeting held at Prime Minister House in Islamabad on Tuesday with Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in the chair.
The meeting reiterated to adopt Zero Tolerance while absolutely unaccepting violence and chaos in the country.
The forum condemned in strongest words the incidents of ransacking, arson and attacks on military installations for political and personal gains.
The participants of the meeting reiterated that disgrace of military installations and public property will not be accepted at all and those involved in May 9, Black Day incidents will be brought to justice.
The forum supported the decision to register cases against miscreants, plotters, inciters, and facilitators under concerned laws, including trials under Army Act and Official Secret Act.
The NSC also directed strict implementation of rules and regulations regarding social media in order to counter the propaganda carried out under external patronage and internal facilitation.
Addressing meeting of the National Security Committee, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said planners and abettors of the violent incidents of 9th May should be brought to justice.
He said the culprits should be taken to task to set an example so that no one can dare repeat such incidents in future.
The Prime Minister said he has directed that innocent people should not be touched upon but culprits involved in these heinous crimes should not be spared even if chief executive of the country seeks any leniency for them.
Shehbaz Sharif said these acts of vandalism are not less than terrorism, which have brought shame to the entire nation.
He said goons of a political party attacked military installations, including the General Headquarters Rawalpindi, FC Camp in Quetta, and other public property.
He said these people inflicted harm on the country that the worst enemy of it could not even think of in 75 years.
The Prime Minister said today’s meeting expressed that the entire nation is standing behind its armed forces.
Source: Radio Pakistan