RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has called for action against proscribed organizations, anti-Pakistan elements operating from outside Pakistan and measures to choke terror financing.
The army chief raised this issue when he visited 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday and met with the British Prime Minister David Cameron and his National Security Adviser Sir Kim Darroch, according to the Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Bajwa.
Visited 10 Downing Street,met National Security advisor, Sir Kim Darroch, and UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron pic.twitter.com/Ld7tvxDUbe
— AsimBajwaISPR (@AsimBajwaISPR) January 14, 2015
COAS raised issue of Action vs proscribed organizations,anti Pak elements operating from Outside Pakistan&measures to choke terror financing
— AsimBajwaISPR (@AsimBajwaISPR) January 14, 2015
The COAS also called on UK Secretary of Defence Michael Fallen and held extensive talks with the Chief of Defence Staff Gen Sir Nicholas Houghton on regional security, stability in Afghanistan, mutual defence and security cooperation.
Moreover, he also met Home Office Permanent Secretary Mark Sedwill and Director General of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) Charles Farr and discussed intelligence sharing and terrorism cooperation.
Later #COAS met Home Office Perm Secy,Mark Sedwill &DG Security & Ctr Terrorism,Charles Farr.Ctr terror coop,int sharing discussed
— AsimBajwaISPR (@AsimBajwaISPR) January 14, 2015
General Raheel Sharif is currently in the United Kingdom on a three-day official visit to have meetings with the senior British political and military leadership.
