The meeting was called in the aftermath of the Mastung bus carnage in Balochistan, where militants killed 22 Pashtun passengers in an ethnically motivated attack. 
Mkutano huu uliitishwa baada ya tukio la mauaji ya kwenye basi la Mastung jijini Balochistan, ambapo wanamgambo waliwaua abiria 22 wa Pashtun kwenye shambulio linalosemekana kusukumwa na chuki za kikabila.