ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif talked to the media personnel and said that drone attacks were a clear violation of PakistanR17;s sovereignty.
After President Mamnoon Hussain’s address to the joint session of the parliament, he said that drone attacks violated PakistanR17;s sovereignty and that there was no option of failing in the war against terrorism. He also said that the past that the current year would be the last for terrorism in Pakistan and this is what he had said several times earlier as well. He said that every day the first file he saw on his table was the one pertaining to IDPs. “Terrorists would not be allowed to go back to cleared areas again,” he said. “I have given assurance to the people of FATA that terrorists would not return. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will be completed at all cost,” he added.
General Raheel also said that development work was being carried out quickly in South Waziristan as well as North Waziristan. An American drone strike on May 21 killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour. Pakistan had reacted strongly to the news and condemnations of the strike came from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Minister for Interior Affairs Chaudhry Nisar and also from General Raheel. He had also protested over the drone strike in a meeting with the United States Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale.
