Martyred Colonel Sohail Abid laid to rest with full military honours
COAS attended the funeral prayer.
QUETTA (Dunya News) – The funeral prayer of Colonel Sohail Abid of Military Intelligence, who embraced martyrdom on Wednesday during an operation near Killi Almas, Balochistan, was held in Rawalpindi on Thursday, and he was laid to rest at Bobari near Bara Kahu with full military honours.
Shaheed Col Sohail Abid laid to rest with full military honour.
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) May 17, 2018
“When a soldier sacrifices his life I lose part flesh of my body, that night is always difficult to pass. But we remain fully determined to sacrifice anything and everything for the defence of our motherland”, COAS. pic.twitter.com/exQ5AIKNKS
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and a large number of senior military officers, soldiers and relatives of the martyred soldier attended the funeral prayer.
Army officer Colonel Sohail Abid embraced martyrdom in exchange of fire in Killi Almas area in Balochistan province on Wednesday.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement, the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Killi Almas, Balochistan, on the pointation from an under custody terrorist about presence of suicide bombers along with other terrorists in hideouts in the area.
The ISPR further informed that two suicide bombers along with a high value target (HVT) Salman Badeni, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) head of Balochistan, were killed in the operation. Salman Badeni was involved in killings of over 100 innocent personnel of Hazara community and police.
