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22-year-old lieutenant martyred in attack on Rajgal valley border: ISPR
[DAWN] The funeral prayers of lieutenant Arsalan Alam were offered in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Garrison an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) blurb said on Saturday. The funeral was attended by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Corps Commander Peshawar Lt Gen Nazir Butt along with the lieutenant's relatives and other civil and military officials. He will be laid to rest in his home town with "full military honour". The 22-year-old lieutenant was martyred earlier today in a terrorist attack on the Pak post in Rajgal valley. Alam, who was the commanding officer of the post got hit and was killed. The blurb said that the attack was carried out from the other side of the border. The Pakistain Army recently concluded Operation Khyber IV in the Rajgal valley and declared that the area was cleared off terrorists. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... Director General ISPR, Major Asif Ghafoor had said that the army cannot carry out operations against terror elements present on Afghan soil. "We took action in the border belt area at the cost of certain reservations from Afghanistan; but we cannot take action against terrorist infrastructure deep inside Afghanistan as a responsible country, as it is a sovereign country and has their own force, and the Resolute Support mission is also there," he had said. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-24 |
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