Islamabad: Pakistan’s top military leadership on Thursday reviewed internal and external challenges confronting the country and the situation along the border with India and discussed their “contemplated response” to these issues. A meeting of the joint Chiefs of Staff Committe held in Rawalpindi discussed the “situation along the eastern borders, developments in the Indian Ocean? Region and the tenuous spectere of regional strategic balance”, said a statement issued by the military.

The meeting, chaired by Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Gen Tariq Majid, also reviewed the “reshaping regional dynamics, implications of the revised US strategy for Afghanistan and impact of increased instability in Afghanistan”. The military leadership reviewed the national security scene and took “stock of evolving internal and external challenges and the contemplated respons”, the statement said. The leaders also discussed measures for dealing with assessed security challenges confronting Pakistan, including the “complex internal security situation”.

The meeting was attended by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, naval chief Admiral Noman Bashir, air force chief Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, Inter-Services Inteligence chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha and Strategic Plans Division chief Khalid Kidwai.

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