Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that Pakistan has to win its war on terrorism at all costs, for its very survival.
He was addressing the passing-out parade of the first batch of army-trained police counter-terrorism force in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province.
The ceremony was also attended among others by Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif.
“We will not rest till the homeland is completely purged of the curse of terrorism,” the prime minister said.
He said the counter-terrorism force being raised in all provinces “is a manifestation of our firm determination to weed out the menace.”
Nawaz Sharif said the war on terrorism had been expanded to the entire country and “we will continue this war till its logical conclusion.”
The prime minister commended the armed forces’ ongoing Zarb-e-Azb operation against terrorists in North Waziristan and other parts of the tribal region along the Afghan in the northwest.
He said the federal and provincial governments along with the security forces were striving to cleanse the country of terrorists through the implementation of a national action plan.
“The consensus demonstrated by our institutions, political leaders and the armed forces against terrorism is unprecedented,” he pointed out.
