Noose tightened around terrorists: COAS

LAHORE: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif said that the noose had been tightened against the terrorists and expressed his resolve of giving a terrorism-free Pakistan to future generations.
Addressing the 3rd convocation of the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Lahore Medical College on Saturday, the COAS said the future generations would be provided a congenial atmosphere to help them apply their knowledge and creativity to achieve the optimum effects for national growth.
He said that the Pakistan Army, along with its role as a custodian of national frontiers, had always been a forerunner in terms of its contribution to national development.
General Raheel Sharif said that the role of the Army Medical Corps (AMC) in the forefront of serious disasters, calamities and military operations against the evil of terrorism and extremism had been highly impressive, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The army chief said that physical, mental and social health was a prelude to a strong nation and the provision of professional health services to the common man must be everyone’s priority.
The COAS said that extensive and continuous research was a national need without which no institution could achieve excellence.
He emphasised the need to have greater faith in the young generation as the future belonged to them.
“We have to collectively put in efforts to give our next generation a terror-free country to provide them an environment conducive to help them apply their knowledge and creativity to achieve optimum effects for national growth,” General Raheel Sharif said.
“We are taking on the menace of terrorism head on and will go anywhere in the country to eliminate it in totality,” the COAS said. Later, General Raheel Sharif awarded degrees and medals to the passing-out students.