* Gen Raheel says environment getting suitable for political optimisation towards a meaningful and sustainable closure
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif said on Thursday that noteworthy achievements in operation Zarb-e-Azb have created space for a decisive surge against terrorists in urban areas and the environment is getting ripe for political optimisation towards a meaningful and sustainable closure.
During his visit to the Command and Staff College in Quetta, the army chief said that only a secure Pakistan could guarantee a prosperous Pakistan. “Our fight against terrorism and extremism is not for today only but for all of our future generations,” he added.
The COAS said that wars are not fought by armies alone, rather they require whole of the nation’s efforts. “Our security threats are complex, multidimensional and hybrid in character,” he said, and maintained that traditional response mechanisms are, therefore, not relevant anymore.
The statement of army chief comes days after he directed the country’s intelligence agencies – including the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) – to adopt a more proactive approach in order to counter the moves of the hostile spy agencies that are trying to destabilise Pakistan.
During a visit to the ISI headquarters, the army chief had asked the ISI chief to follow a more proactive approach while gathering intelligence pertaining to the military operations going on in the various volatile areas of the country. He also underscored the need to further coordinate and synergise a combined civil-military intelligence effort at the national level by providing all agencies requisite support and ever developing modern intelligence techniques.
Appreciating ISI’s role in preventing numerous terrorist acts, he said, “Most of the achievements and successes of the intelligence agencies go unnoticed but their accomplishments for the defence of the country are phenomenal which deserve due recognition and acknowledgment.”
The military also looks determined to bring peace back to Karachi. The army chief has time and again maintained that the ongoing operation in Karachi will remain across the board, indiscriminate and will continue till its logical conclusion. “We will continue to work with people and the provincial government in Sindh to finish all mafias,” he said during his visit to the Corps Headquarters in Karachi a few days back. He said Karachi operation was bringing relief in terms of decrease in target killing and extortion.
Coinciding with the visit of the army chief, five men were injured when unidentified assailants hurled a hand grenade at a former wine distillery situated on Quetta’s Kawari Road on Thursday.
The attackers sped away on motorbikes before police and Frontier Corps personnel reached the scene.
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif said on Thursday that noteworthy achievements in operation Zarb-e-Azb have created space for a decisive surge against terrorists in urban areas and the environment is getting ripe for political optimisation towards a meaningful and sustainable closure.
During his visit to the Command and Staff College in Quetta, the army chief said that only a secure Pakistan could guarantee a prosperous Pakistan. “Our fight against terrorism and extremism is not for today only but for all of our future generations,” he added.
The COAS said that wars are not fought by armies alone, rather they require whole of the nation’s efforts. “Our security threats are complex, multidimensional and hybrid in character,” he said, and maintained that traditional response mechanisms are, therefore, not relevant anymore.
The statement of army chief comes days after he directed the country’s intelligence agencies – including the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) – to adopt a more proactive approach in order to counter the moves of the hostile spy agencies that are trying to destabilise Pakistan.
During a visit to the ISI headquarters, the army chief had asked the ISI chief to follow a more proactive approach while gathering intelligence pertaining to the military operations going on in the various volatile areas of the country. He also underscored the need to further coordinate and synergise a combined civil-military intelligence effort at the national level by providing all agencies requisite support and ever developing modern intelligence techniques.
Appreciating ISI’s role in preventing numerous terrorist acts, he said, “Most of the achievements and successes of the intelligence agencies go unnoticed but their accomplishments for the defence of the country are phenomenal which deserve due recognition and acknowledgment.”
The military also looks determined to bring peace back to Karachi. The army chief has time and again maintained that the ongoing operation in Karachi will remain across the board, indiscriminate and will continue till its logical conclusion. “We will continue to work with people and the provincial government in Sindh to finish all mafias,” he said during his visit to the Corps Headquarters in Karachi a few days back. He said Karachi operation was bringing relief in terms of decrease in target killing and extortion.
Coinciding with the visit of the army chief, five men were injured when unidentified assailants hurled a hand grenade at a former wine distillery situated on Quetta’s Kawari Road on Thursday.
The attackers sped away on motorbikes before police and Frontier Corps personnel reached the scene.
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