{"id":65204,"date":"2018-05-14T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65204"},"modified":"2018-05-14T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:29:47","slug":"nsc-terms-sharifs-statement-over-26-11-as-completely-false-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65204","title":{"rendered":"NSC terms Sharif\u2019s statement over 26\/11 as \u201ccompletely false, misleading\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, May 14 (TNS): The National Security Committee (NSC) on Monday categorically denied former premier Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s recent statement on the 2008 Mumbai attacks and unanimously termed it &#8220;completely false and misleading&#8221;, says a press release issued after key meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The NSC, which met under the chair of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday, said in its statement that the country&#8217;s top civil and military leadership conducted a detailed review of Nawaz&#8217;s statement printed in a newspaper interview on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o-_jgceqKrA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The NSC said it was unfortunate and regrettable that concrete evidence and facts were ignored in the\u00a0statement.<\/p>\n<p>It also stated that India denied Pakistani investigators access to Ajmal Kasab, the convicted Mumbai attacker who was hanged by India.<\/p>\n<p>The top brass of the military, including Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee\u00a0General Zubair Mahmood Hayat and Director General Inter-Services Intelligence Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar attended the meeting, held at the PM House.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the chiefs of the navy and air force also attended the meeting, as did directors general of military operations and military intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Defence Minister and acting foreign minister Khurram Dastgir was also a part of the meeting along with other top civil officials of the government.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was called over remarks made by Nawaz regarding the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Nawaz, in a recent interview to Dawn newspaper, had said, \u201cMilitant organisations are active. Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me. Why can\u2019t we complete the trial?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks were played up by the Indian media as an admission of Pakistan&#8217;s involvement in the terrorist attacks, even though similar questions and statements have been raised from civilian and security officials in Pakistan earlier.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Press Release<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, May 14 (TNS): The National Security Committee (NSC) on Monday categorically denied former premier Nawaz Sharif&#8217;s recent statement on the 2008 Mumbai attacks and unanimously termed it &#8220;completely false and misleading&#8221;, says a press release issued after key meeting. The NSC, which met under the chair of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65221,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65204\/revisions\/65221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}