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Govt urged to devise comprehensive CVE policy

By our correspondents
March 29, 2017

Islamabad: The participants of a workshop urged the government to devise a comprehensive Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) policy to root out all violent extremism in the country. They stressed the need to bring community and religious leaders together with law enforcement, teachers and people in order to deter people from joining extremists groups. The views were expressed during a three days long workshop entitled “Strengthening the Capacity of CVE stakeholders in Pakistan” organized by Individulland Pakistan. The main objective of the workshop was to engage civil society organizations, youth and government representatives to counter violence and extremism.