ISLAMABAD – Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa says relativepeace in the country has been achieved at a high cost.
He said this while addressing the Passing out Parade of 110 Midshipmen and19th Short Service Course held at Naval Academy in Karachi today.
Army Chief said armed forces and Law enforcement agencies have renderedtremendous sacrifices to restore peace and order.
He said it is our duty to honour their sacrifice through display of unity,faith and discipline in everything that we do.
He said Pakistan is a peace-loving country and believes in peace within andpeace without.
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General Qamar Javed Bajwa said Pakistan is trying very hard to help bring alasting peace in Afghanistan by supporting Afghan led and Afghan ownedpeace plan.
He said the new government has extended a hand of peace and friendshiptowards India with utmost sincerity but it should not be taken as ourweakness.
Army Chief said it is time to fight against hunger, disease and illiteracy.Army Chief said modern technology has transformed the nature of warfare andhas tilted the balance squarely, in favour of those nations that haveembraced the change readily. Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa said theprotagonists of the new threats are at times, our own people,mostlymisguided by ambitions or overawed by social media fall victim to hostilenarratives. He urged the graduates to be ready to respond, even when asurgical strike exists only in cognitive domain or media or even when theattack comes, not in the battlefield but in cyber space, or againstcountry’s ideological frontiers.
