The new Pakistani government after assuming the power started dialogue with militants in Waziristan open mindedly, and the law and order situation became better for a few months, but, unfortunately, the dialogues didn’t work and the militants started attacking Pakistan. Then, after the attack on Karachi airport, Pakistan launched full scale military operation against militants in north Waziristan. In Balochistan, PMLN government allow Baloch nationalists to form government with PMLN support. The idea worked and the law and order situation in Balochistan is better than the last decade. The new government also launched a targeted operation in Karachi, which is also producing favourable results.

Later, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 24 December 2014, announced country-wide National Action Plan to deal with terrorism. On overall basis, the PMLN government lead by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is successful in maintaining better law and order situation than the last decade in the 2.3 years. An estimate of the betterment is 70% on overall basis.