Armed forces ready to give befitting response to Indian aggression: ISPR

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 Zarbe-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.