Pakistan has fought terrorism indiscriminately: COAS

QUETTA, May 07 (APP):Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa Monday said that terrorism had
no religion, sect or ethnicity stating, “Pakistan has fought against this
menace indiscriminately and shall root it out through whole of the nation
approach.”
The COAS, who arrived here was addressing the participants of Second National
Security Workshop Balochistan, organized by Southern Command in collaboration with government of
Balochistan, said a statement issued here by Inter-Services Public Relations.
The two-week long workshop was aimed at creating understanding about critical
national security issues, capacity building for timely decision making and
enabling the participants to comprehend interplay of all elements of national
power in the construct of ‘Comprehensive National Security’. Members of
national and Balochistan provincial assemblies, media representatives and civil
services officers attended the workshop.
Highlighting internal and external challenges, the COAS said that full spectrum of threat
demanded comprehensive national response and Army was fully engaged in enabling
that response in coordination with other institutions of the state.
Commander Southern Command Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa accompanied the Army Chief.