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Army chief Bajwa vows revenge for Sehwan attacks: 'No more restraint'
[DAWN] Moments after a devastating bombing at Lal Shahbaz Qalander shrine in Sehwan, Sindh, the Pakistain military issued a strongly worded statement to "hostile powers", saying it will respond to such attacks.In a short message posted to Twitter, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said, "Recent terrorist acts are being executed on directions from hostile powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan. We shall defend and respond." "Each drop of the nation's blood shall be Dire Revenged, and Dire Revenged immediately. No more restraint for anyone," the army chief was quoted as saying. He added that Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has appealed for "calm". "Your security forces shall not allow hostile powers to succeed. We stand for our nation," Ghafoor quoted COAS Bajwa as saying. At least 50 people have been killed and scores injured in a suicide kaboom on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan on Thursday evening. The attack is the fourth in a string of a shocking wave of militancy across the country, with Lahore, Quetta and  Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... struck in the last four days. Posted by: Fred 2017-02-17 |
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