RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Corps Commanders on Friday expressed their serious concern over feeding of false and fabricated story of the recent important security meeting and viewed it as “breach of national security”.
Earlier this month, a high level security meeting was held at the PM House in Islamabad though it was an in-camera meeting; however, DAWN NEW’s reporter Cyril Almeida disclosed important parts of the meeting in his story published on October 7. Eventually Cyril Almeida’s name was included in the Exit Control List (ECL) while the federal government twice issued a denial that it had nothing to do with the published controversial story.
In the Conference held at the army general headquarters in Rawalpindi on Friday and presided over by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, all Corps Commanders and Principal Staff Officers held a comprehensive review of internal and external security situation with particular focus on prevailing environment at Line of Control (LoC) and operational preparedness of the Army.
Rejecting the absurd Indian claims of hoax surgical strikes as an attempt to divert world’s attention, away from brutalities being committed by Indian Army against innocent Kashmiris, the forum resolved that any attempt of misadventurism and irresponsible act will be met with the most befitting response.
While expressing complete satisfaction over operational preparedness of the troops, the COAS reiterated Pakistan Army’s resolve to defend the motherland at any cost against full spectrum of threat.
Recounting the successes of Operation Zarb-e-Azb so far and resultant stability being achieved to propel Pakistan in to a new phase of development and prosperity, the COAS re-emphasized the need for sustained efforts on internal security to defeat all hostile attempts to reverse our gains.
The participants resolved to continue sustained and focused combing and intelligence-based operations across the length and breadth of the country to uproot terrorism harmonizing it with implementation of national action plan (NAP) to address extremism and other causes of terrorism.
