PNN – The Pakistani army chief warned Kabul to take decisive and immediate action against terrorists who, he claims, are using Afghan soil to attack Islamabad.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Telegraph India, Pakistani Army Chief Syed Asim Munir, while calling on Kabul to take decisive and immediate action against terrorists who, he claims, are using Afghan soil to attack Islamabad, warned Afghanistan about choosing between “peace and chaos.”
Munir’s comments came amid fresh Pakistani airstrikes against what are believed to be terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan yesterday, hours after Islamabad and Kabul extended a two-day ceasefire that had temporarily halted fighting between the two sides.
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Addressing Afghanistan at the graduation ceremony of army officer cadets at the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul in Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan said: “Choose between peace and chaos.”
He also said that the Afghan caretaker government (Taliban) must take decisive action against militants who, he claims, are using Afghan soil for terrorist activities in Pakistan, and claimed that all proxy groups that use Afghan soil will face a severe response.
Yesterday’s attacks in Pakistan followed an armed attack on a military facility in North Waziristan; an attack that, according to the Telegraph India, was carried out by the terrorist group Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a subsidiary of the terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
The new attacks came as representatives of Afghanistan and Pakistan were scheduled to meet in Doha.