Military and intelligence leaders on Thursday called for avoiding divisive politics on issues of national interest as they cautioned that strategic challenges and related policy shift in external relations could have repercussions for the country. — APP/File ISLAMABAD: Military and intelligence leaders on Thursday called for avoiding divisive politics on issues of national interest as they cautioned that strategic challenges and related policy shift in external relations could have repercussions for the country. This was the crux of a briefing given by Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) Director General Lt Gen Faiz Hameed to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security on the spectrum of possible threats and the regional environment — the situation emerging in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces from there and the stalemate in peace talks, the developments in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and US efforts to contain China, according to a source privy to the proceedings.