By Muhammad Luqman
Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, chaired security meeting at Corps Headquarters in Lahore on Tuesday.
According to a statement issued by ISPR, the media wing of Pakistan’s armed forces, a detailed briefing was given on Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad and Tuesday’s suicide blast in Lahore that resulted in the killing 26 persons including 9 policemen.
Expressing his grief with victims and their families, COAS said that such incidents cannot lower Pakistan’s resolve to eliminate terrorism from its roots. We are making gains in breaking connectivity between terror masterminds and their facilitators/ executors.
General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that Army fully supports and stands with police and other Law Enforcement Agencies towards performance of their role as first responders. He said we have fought against terrorism as a nation and key to success is national participation by reporting every suspicious activity to security forces.
COAS said that regional actors and hostile intelligence agendas are fully involved to use terror as policy tool. Concurrent blasts at Kabul and Lahore are testimony of our stance that both Pakistan and Afghanistan are victims of terrorism and will continue to suffer if these actors are able to use Afghanistan territory with impunity. He reiterated that Pakistan is ready to help Afghanistan to eliminate terrorist safe heavens in their border areas as we have done on our side.
Later, COAS visited injured of the blast at General Hospital. Lieutenant General Sadiq Ali Commander Lahore Corps and Inspector General Police Punjab were also present.
