DG ISPR says recent suicide attacks were plotted and launched from Afghanistan
Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa said on Tuesday that despite the war against terrorism, the country’s armed forces were keeping an eye on the eastern borders, and were ready to give a befitting reply to any Indian aggression.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif presided over a meeting to review Operation Zarb-e-Azb and security situation, in which matters relating to Indian threats and situation in Kashmir also came under discussion.
Addressing a press conference in Peshawar on Tuesday, he said that 20 percent checkposts were being constructed along the western border, adding that all major operations under Zarb-e-Azb had been completed.
The DG ISPR said the COAS chaired a special operational meeting after returning from Germany.
Lt Gen Asim Bajwa said the Rajgal mountainous area along the Pak-Afghan border had been cleared, adding that the armed forces were in full control on the Afghan border.
He said the security forces unearthed and averted fourteen terrorist attacks in different parts of the country. “As many as 1,470 combing operations have been conducted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA since 1st July this year to control the menace of terrorism,” he added.
The DG ISPR said that seven facilitators of suicide attacks on Christian Colony Peshawar and District Courts Mardan had been arrested, adding that both the terrorist attacks were planned in Afghanistan and the suicide bombers entered Pakistan from the Afghan soil.
Bajwa said the information about terrorist attacks had been shared with the International Security Assistance Force (ISF), the Afghan government, army and intelligence agencies. He said the Warsak terrorist attack was also planned in Afghanistan, and women were among the facilitators of the attack.