QUETTA, May 08 (TNS): 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 the whole of the nation approach.” The COAS, who arrived here on Monday was addressing the participants of Second National Security Workshop Balochistan, organized by Southern Command in collaboration with the government of Balochistan, said a statement issued here by Inter-Services Public Relations.
According to the press release of ISPR 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.
