CJCSC General Zubair calls on PM Khan in Islamabad
General Zubair discussed professional matters pertaining to the armed forces with the premier
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Zubair Mahmood Hayat called on Prime Minister Imran Khan in PM Office, Islamabad on Friday.
During the meeting, General Zubair discussed professional matters pertaining to the armed forces with the premier.
Earlier, addressing main ceremony in connection with the Defense and Martyrs Day at GHQ in Rawalpindi, he promised the nation that Pakistan will not fight anyone else’s war, nor will become part of it, adding that our foreign policy will be in the best interest of the nation.
The prime minister said that he was against Pakistan’s joining war on terror but the way our forces fought against the scourge of terrorism is unparalleled. “After we took part in someone else’s war, the sacrifices our people gave and what our country went through and the way our armed forces fought, the way our security institutions took up the nature of this war. No one else could do this.”
Khan said: “Pakistan was built in the name of Islam but today the nation is going through tough times; but I have no doubt that we will rise as a great country.”
He said that we will rise as a great country when those living in slums, policemen, our farmers who work all day will realize that the education their children get from a government school will enable him to become a Doctor, an engineer or a general.
“We’ll rise as a great country when a laborer goes to the courts and knows that he will get justice there and when the person living in a slum will know the state will take care of him if someone in his family falls sick; his child will have a better future.”
The prime minister went on to say that Pakistan will become a great nation by strengthening of institutions and promoting meritocracy.
“The rising of the Muslim nation under a great leader, our Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is a part of history and we have been told to learn from his life and if we want to rise as a nation we have to follow his principles,” he added.
Khan asserted that Pakistan is endowed with immense resources and we are rich with minerals, diverse topography and four seasons and the only need is working honestly to realize the goal of making the country great.
He said that our army is the only functioning institution in the country, for the simple reason that there is no political interference and all things are run on merit.
Rejecting the impressions of civil-military divide, PM Imran Khan said that both are on same page regarding the issues faced by the country, adding that our armed forces are our asset and source of pride.
We will together strengthen our institutions as all our enemies tried to take advantage of the fact that we went into someone else’s war; but I thank the Pakistan army and our intelligence agencies with how they fought this war and defeated terrorism, he added.
