Pakistan needs to review internal security, terror policies: Bilawal

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday said that Pakistan perhaps needed to review its internal security policies and decisions in the wake of rising terrorist incidents and protests against them.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Bilawal said the residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and South Waziristan had always supported peace and confronted terrorism.

"Obviously if they feel, right or wrong, that terrorists are returning, they are protesting which is their right. Our responsibility as the government and the state is to ensure peace, rule of law and the state's writ.

"I suggested to one of the questions before you that perhaps it is time for an incamera internal review on decisions regarding terrorism and internal security," the foreign minister said.

To a later question about war or negotiation being the only methods available to deal with the banned militant Tehreek-iTaliban group, FM Bilawal said: "I never think it is as easy as black and white either war or negotiations."

He said he had a "different approach" to the issue from the previous government's decisions in the past regarding it.