RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday said that their defence preparation and operational readiness is to ensure peace within and peace without, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Addressing a handing over ceremony of Tank Al Khalid-1 to Armoured Corps Regiment at Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT), General Qamar Javed Bajwa said, “If provoked, we shall respond and respond with all our might.”
According to the military’s media wing, the COAS lauded the efforts of HIT towards the attainment of self-reliance and manufacturing of world-class indigenous defence products, direly needed in evolving security environment. Tank Al Khalid-1 is a joint venture with friendly countries China and Ukraine, said ISPR.
Earlier on June 3, expressing grave concerns over continuous and unproved ceasefire violations by Indian troops along the Line of Control (LoC), Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar had warned that there will be ‘uncontrollable and unintended consequences’ of any military adventurism. He had said that India had seen its manifestation last year.–ISPR
