RAWALPINDI: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah Friday said the entire nation is united to fight terrorism and the time has ripped to take a final decision to wipe out the elements taking lives of innocent people.

"We are thinking what" our security personnel and civilians are being targeted.

We must sit together and the government will have to take a final decision against terrorists," he said while talking to reporters here at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) where he visited to inquired about health of the injured of Bannu and RA Bazar terrorism incidents.

Former federal ministers Qamar Zaman Kaira and Nazar Muhammad Gondal were also accompanied him.

He said leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has categorically stated that it would extend all-out support to the government in its decision whatsoever it takes to tackle miscreants carrying out subversive activities in various parts of the country.

Khursheed Shah said PPP would not leave the government alone in any circumstances for the cause of national sovereignty and democracy for which it rendered great sacrifices, adding "PPP and the entire nation is with Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif."

Answering a question, he said, PPP in its tenure had purged Sawat and Malakand divisions of terrorists after taking the parliament into confidence, but it is not the time of point scoring.

He said writ of the state must be maintained at all cost as any weakness would encourage enemies of the country.

(APP)