Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a high-level security meeting on Wednesday. The meeting was also attended by Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, heads of intelligence services and federal ministers.

Federal Information Minister Ata Tarrar briefed journalists after the meeting.

In an apparent reference to hot pursuit in Afghanistan, the information minister said Pakistan will not allow any land to be used against it.

Official sources told reporters that the prime minister told the security meeting that the country would follow its enemy everywhere.

Tarar said a standard operation procedure (SOP) existed about the security of Chinese nationals in Pakistan. “We know how to defend our long-lasting friends,” he said.

The minister said PML-N had left a peaceful Pakistan in 2018 after suppressing terrorism that saw its peak in 2013. But then the security situation deteriorated during four years under Imran Khan government, he said.

Referring to air strikes across the border in Afghanistan, Tarar said Pakistan’s response to the Mir Ali terror attack earlier this month was appropriate as it had all the evidence.

The information minister refused to comment on the ongoing controversy involving a letter by six Islamabad High Court judges to the Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan.