In a message on the third anniversary of the attack on APS, Zardari said that all those who were martyred in the gruesome attack on APS that day are national heroes. He also deplored that the National Action Plan (NAP) devised to root out terrorism to avenge the blood of the martyrs had not been implemented in letter and spirit. Failure in implementing NAP amounts to rejecting the sacrifices of countless martyrs of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, police and the civilians in the fight against militancy and extremism, he added. Zardari lamented that banned militant organisations had resurrected under different names behind the facade of charity work. The PPP president demanded the government to immediately bring the FATA Reforms Bill before the parliament, which paves way for the merger of tribal areas with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as part of the NAP, to pay homage to the martyrs of APS.

Source: Pakistan Today December 16, 2017 18:22 UTC