Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that a full spectrum of threats demands comprehensive national response and that army is fully engaged in enabling that response in coordination with all other state institutions. “Highlighting internal and external challenges to national security, COAS said that the full spectrum of threat demands comprehensive national response and Army is fully engaged in enabling that response in coordination with other institutions of the state,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement issued on Friday. While addressing the participants of the National Security and War Course at National Defence University Islamabad, the army chief said terrorism has no religion, sect or ethnicity. “Pakistan has fought against this menace indiscriminately and shall root it out through ongoing operation Radd-ul-Fasaad.” Terrorism, he added, cannot be defeated by closing eyes from one’s own responsibilities and resorting to throwing blames outside as being done by few players in the region. Last week, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, while lashing out at Pakistan at the Kabul Process, had alleged that Islamabad was waging an ‘undeclared war of aggression’ against Kabul. Issuing a stinging rebuke aimed towards Pakistan before a gathering of 23 nations, the European Union, the United Nations and NATO, Ghani had asked, “What will it take to convince Pakistan that a stable Afghanistan helps them and helps our region?” Gen Qamar reaffirmed that Pakistan Army is committed to defence and security of the country and shall continue to perform with support of the people of Pakistan. Earlier, on arrival at National Defence University, the COAS was received by President NDU Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar.