ISLAMABAD-
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday left for London on a three-day official visit, private media reported.
During his visit to London, the army chief will hold meetings with political and military leadership where issues pertaining to regional and national security situation with particular regard to Afghanistan and eastern borders will come into discussion.
According to the sources, General Raheel will take key US leadership into confidence over Pakistan’s perspective and so far development on Pakistan’s war against terror and the Operation Zarb-i-Azb.
Pakistan army, in mid-June 2014, had launched an indiscriminate operation Zarb-e-Azb against militants in the northern region of the country which is currently going on.
Moreover, months into Zarb-e-Azb, the army also launched Khyber 1, an operation to wipe-out militants’ hideouts in the tribal region of Khyber Agency.
However, following the attack on Army Public School in Peshawar which claimed the lives of at least 150 people – most of them children, the military strikes were escalated in troubled regions.
Later on, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander General Joseph Dunford also assured the army chief to provide complete assistance in security-related matters.
