BERLIN: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa is in Germany toattend 54th Munich Security Conference. COAS arrived in Munich on Friday toattend the conference.

Army Chief will speak at the conference in the afternoon (local time1700h). He will give an introductory speech on ‘Jihadism and Caliphate’.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi will also speak on the same topic.The introductory statements on ‘Jihadism and Caliphate’ will be followed bya panel discussion in which German Interior Minister Thomas de Mazaire willjoin other panelists.

General Bajwa might have few sideline meetings at MSC.It is for the first time that he is attending the conference in Munich.General Bajwa’s name was mentioned in the last years’ participant’s list,but former Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif had attended the lastyear’s international security conference.

On the weekend more than 30 heads of state and government and over 100cabinet ministers from across the globe come together at the MunichSecurity Conference (MSC) for discussions on major international securitychallenges.