ISLAMABAD Sept 6 (TNS): President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in their separate messages on Defence Day, paid homage to all those who laid down their lives in defending the motherland and said that Pakistan is fully capable of defeating ant kind of aggression.
The president said the government has launched the National Action Plan under which the armed forces, police and law enforcement agencies are successfully rooting out the menace of terrorism and extremism from the country.
The prime minister said the nation is stronger today than it was in 1965 and stressed that enemies can only be defeated through strict adherence to the cardinal principles of unity, faith and discipline laid down by the Father of the Nation.
Pakistan is on the path of accelerated development and the country is being viewed as an emerging economy by the global economic community, he said.
Abbasi lauded the professional excellence of Pakistan’s military and noted that it has been victorious in the war against terrorism. Operations Zarb-e-Azb, Radd-ul-Fasaad and Khyber-4 have broken the backbone of terrorists, he added.
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