PNN – The Minister of Defense of Pakistan said: This country is determined to eradicate terrorism in its southwestern borders and has the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran in repelling this sinister phenomenon.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, during an interview with a Pakistani news network, Khawaja Mohammad Asif said about the recent decision of the government of this country to implement a new military operation called “Firm Resolve” that, unfortunately, the problem of terrorism has severely affected our relations with Afghanistan, and Islamabad does not receive effective cooperation from its western neighbor.
He claimed that the caretaker government of Afghanistan is not doing enough to deal with terrorism on the common borders and added that the Afghan Taliban have ignored the terrorist activities of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Taliban group and are appeasing in preventing the movements of the security forces on our borders.
Referring to the anti-terrorist cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Minister of Defense of Pakistan added that we have no challenge with Iran in this important matter and we believe that we have Tehran’s support in eradicating terrorism.
He emphasized: The new military operation will have a special focus on identifying security disruptors and the designers of terrorist attacks, and its scope will be wider in the 2 states of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan.
During the meeting of the high-level security committee of Pakistan chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and with the presence of the heads of the armed forces and security agencies of this country, it was announced that a new military operation called “Strengthening Resolve” will be implemented to effectively deal with terrorism and extremism in Pakistan.
This is the fourth large-scale military operation in Pakistan against terrorism since 2007, which was carried out largely due to rampant terrorism in the country, internal threats caused by extremism and its supporters.
Operation “Rah Nejat”, “Zarb Azab” and “Radd al-Fasaad” are three military operations of the Pakistan Army that were implemented in the last 10 years (2007 to 2017).