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RAWALPINDI: Following the Peshawar Police Lines suicide attack that killed 100 people, the military on Tuesday decided to focus on counterterrorism operations while maintaining a zero-tolerance policy toward terrorists and with the explicit goal of achieving lasting peace.
“Such immoral and cowardly acts cannot shake [the] resolve of the nation [but] rather reinvigorate our determination to succeed in [the] ongoing war against terror with zero tolerance for any terrorist entity,” Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir said.
The army chief’s statement came as he chaired the 255th Corps Commanders’ Conference (CCC) at the General Headquarters (GHQ) a day after the suicide blast in Peshawar’s strictly-guarded Police Lines area.
During the meeting, Monday’s terror attack dominated the proceedings.
The forum lavishly honored the victims of the Peshawar police lines explosion and vowed to bring the criminals to justice.
Gen. Munir reiterated his zero-tolerance policy toward any terrorist organization and gave all commanders the order to maintain their attention on counterterrorism operations in conjunction with intelligence and law enforcement agencies with renewed resolve until we achieve lasting peace.
Participants were briefed in detail about prevailing and emerging threats in the country, including the attack, the ongoing intelligence-based operations by army and law enforcing agencies (LEAs) across the country for breaking the nexus between terrorists and their support mechanism and the situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
