ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Friday paid visit to ISI headquarters, lauding the premium spy agency’s role in thwarting numerous terrorist acts and rendering unmatchable service for the security of the country.
Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) DG Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar briefed the COAS about internal and external security situation of the country and counter terrorism operations of the agency.
The COAS was also briefed by the director general on pre-empting a number of terrorist acts and successful intelligence-based operations (IBOs).
Gen Raheel, according to a statement issued here, was impressed by the role of ISI in counter terrorism operations.
He appreciated the agency’s role and said that most of the achievements of the spy agencies go unnoticed but their accomplishments for the defence of the country are phenomenal which deserve due recognition and acknowledgment.
The army chief emphasised the need for more proactive and coordinated role of intelligence agencies for an effective counter terrorism campaign and to counter hostile agencies’ moves to destabilise Pakistan.
He also emphasised the need to further coordinate and synergise a combined civil-military intelligence effort at national level by providing all agencies the requisite support, and developing modern intelligence techniques.
The visit of army chief comes days after the military as well as civil authorities of the country publicly alleged Indian intelligence agency RAW of fanning terrorism in Pakistan and carrying out subversive activities in different areas of the country, especially Balochistan and Karachi.
Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Saturday said that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was involved in creating unrest in Pakistan.
He said that two militants arrested in Karachi had received training from the Indian spy agency.
He said, if RAW was found to be behind the Safora massacre, in which more than 40 members of the Ismaili community onboard a bus were brutally killed by gunmen, Pakistan would take up the issue on all international forums.
Aizaz statement came after country’s top military commanders in a meeting expressed serious concern over the involvement of RAW saying it was “whipping up terrorism” in Pakistan.
The concern was raised during a corps commanders’ conference presided over by Army chief General Raheel Sharif at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on May 5.
Furthermore, a senior officer of the Sindh police also had alleged in a dramatic news conference that Indian intelligence agency trained the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists to create unrest in Karachi.
Calling the MQM more dangerous than the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Malir SSP Rao Anwar called for banning the party.
The Karachi-based party however rejected the allegations saying it was being politically victimised and its workers killed extra-judicially in the name of Karachi targeted operation, launched in the biggest city of Pakistan against criminals and terrorists.
Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) DG Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar briefed the COAS about internal and external security situation of the country and counter terrorism operations of the agency.
The COAS was also briefed by the director general on pre-empting a number of terrorist acts and successful intelligence-based operations (IBOs).
Gen Raheel, according to a statement issued here, was impressed by the role of ISI in counter terrorism operations.
He appreciated the agency’s role and said that most of the achievements of the spy agencies go unnoticed but their accomplishments for the defence of the country are phenomenal which deserve due recognition and acknowledgment.
The army chief emphasised the need for more proactive and coordinated role of intelligence agencies for an effective counter terrorism campaign and to counter hostile agencies’ moves to destabilise Pakistan.
He also emphasised the need to further coordinate and synergise a combined civil-military intelligence effort at national level by providing all agencies the requisite support, and developing modern intelligence techniques.
The visit of army chief comes days after the military as well as civil authorities of the country publicly alleged Indian intelligence agency RAW of fanning terrorism in Pakistan and carrying out subversive activities in different areas of the country, especially Balochistan and Karachi.
Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Saturday said that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was involved in creating unrest in Pakistan.
He said that two militants arrested in Karachi had received training from the Indian spy agency.
He said, if RAW was found to be behind the Safora massacre, in which more than 40 members of the Ismaili community onboard a bus were brutally killed by gunmen, Pakistan would take up the issue on all international forums.
Aizaz statement came after country’s top military commanders in a meeting expressed serious concern over the involvement of RAW saying it was “whipping up terrorism” in Pakistan.
The concern was raised during a corps commanders’ conference presided over by Army chief General Raheel Sharif at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on May 5.
Furthermore, a senior officer of the Sindh police also had alleged in a dramatic news conference that Indian intelligence agency trained the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists to create unrest in Karachi.
Calling the MQM more dangerous than the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Malir SSP Rao Anwar called for banning the party.
The Karachi-based party however rejected the allegations saying it was being politically victimised and its workers killed extra-judicially in the name of Karachi targeted operation, launched in the biggest city of Pakistan against criminals and terrorists.
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