Islamabad: Director General-Military Operation, has said that Army was involved in fighting militancy, and as such aimed at elimination of militancy, and establish writ of the State.
DG-MO Major General Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad was providing details regarding Army posts established along Pak-Afghan Border during the 3rd meeting of the Inquiry Commission on Abbottabad Operation on 25th July 2011 in the Committee Room of the Cabinet Division chaired by f Justice Javed Iqbal of Superme Court of Pakistan.
Other members of the commission were Abbas Khan, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, and Lt. Gen. (R) Nadeem attended the meeting, during which General Ahmad, gave a detailed statement to the Commission explaining perspective of the Army leading to Abbottabad Operation.
He informed the commission about the contacts made by the Chief of Army Staff with Chief of Air Staff, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister and the President of Pakistan soon after learning about the incident.
He however, stated that no threat whatsoever was envisaged from Afghanistan and ISAF (International Security Assistance Force), both of whom are allies of Pakistan in the fight against terrorism.
He also explained that Abbottabad Cantonment is an open cantonment, hosts only training institutions and as such no fighting troops are deployed in the garrison. Nevertheless these Institutions have their own security in place to deal with any security threat.
Gen. Ahmed explained that Pakistan and US/ISAF conduct anti militant operations on respective side of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border and Plans of operations close to the border are fully shared. The operation in Abbottabad was not known to any tier in the Pakistan Army. “US acted in an environment of trust and Army was therefore, taken by surprise. The Strategic Sites are very well protected and are under Air and Ground protection of Pakistan Armed Forces, as such not comparable with Abbottabad incident”, he deliberated.
The next meeting of the Commission will be held on Monday the 1st August, 2011, wherein DG ISI will brief the Commission.
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