- Says national stakeholders must stick together on key issues to defeat inimical forces
- Vows to support national institutions within the constitutional ambit
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan attained internal peace and stability after rendering enormous sacrifices, said Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa while addressing the 226th Corps Commanders’ Conference in Rawalpindi on Monday, adding that the country’s armed forces would not allow anyone to reverse the security gains that were painstakingly made.
According to an official handout circulated by the military’s media wing, ISPR, the conference reviewed Pakistan’s overall geostrategic and national security environment.
The participants of the meeting also discussed the situation along the country’s eastern border with India, line of control that divides the Kashmir region and the overall developments in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
“We have attained better internal security and stability through cohesive national efforts and sacrifices rendered by Pakistan Armed Forces, all national institutions and above all the nation,” the army chief was quoted as saying in the ISPR press release. “We shall not let it reverse to suit any vested agenda at any cost.”
General Bajwa also maintained that the army was “an organ of the state,” adding it “will continue to support national institutions as and when asked as per the constitution.”
“While Pakistan Armed Forces with the support of national institutions and the nation are fully prepared and committed to thwart all threats including on Eastern Border / LOC, continued cohesion of all national stakeholders on key national issues is essential to defeat inimical forces,” he said.