RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday directed the commanders and intelligence outfits to further intensify the combing and targeted operations with full vigour to eliminate terrorists and sleeper cells.
The directive was issued by the army chief while presiding over a corps commanders conference held at the General Headquarters. The conference was attended by all corps commanders and principal staff officers.
Raheel Sharif also directed commanders to provide all the necessary assistance to provincial law enforcement agencies in their capacity building through training, resourcing and planning so as to integrate them effectively in counter terrorism operations.
According to the ISPR, the forum expressed its deepest sympathies with grieved families and injured of the Quetta blast.
Participants of the conference were given detailed briefings on the on-going military operations and overall external and internal security situation in the country with particular reference to counter-terrorism domain.
The army chief said the cowardly terror attack on Pakistan’s judiciary – carried out in a hospital – was an attempt to undermine the successes of operation Zarb-e-Azb. The valiant Pakistani armed forces would not allow anyone to reverse the gains against terrorism, he vowed.
