He said, with the Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav’s arrest, an entire network of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was busted in Pakistan.
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Some were involved in assaults on the media, including grenade attacks on local television outlets ARY TV News and Din News in the past year in which five people were wounded.
Bajwa said that people linked with Daesh had plans to target important personalities belonging to different walks of life and state symbols.
‘We have arrested the core of 20-25 militants of Daesh [Islamic State], including its Pakistan chief Hafiz Umer, ‘ said Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Director General Inter Service Public Relations Major General Asim Bajwa while briefing local and worldwide media over the country’s counter-terrorism efforts said those who doubt Pakistan efforts in the fight against terrorism must play with facts.
“There is no organised presence of IS here”, Bajwa said, adding that six members of the Pakistani Taliban were the first to switch loyalty to IS in January 2015 in Afghanistan and operates at the Afghan side of the border.
In a detailed media briefing Asim Bajwa talked about a host of issues in detail including ISIS presence in Pakistan, attacks on media offices, Pakistan-Afghanistan border management, anti-terrorism operations in agencies and others. Pakistan had stepped up military operations across the country – and specifically in the northwestern tribal regions bordering Afghanistan – after the 2014 Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar that killed 156 people, mostly children.
However, a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban also claimed the hospital bombing and Bajwa said he believed the Islamic State statement was false.
It was a huge success and an obvious evidence of Indian involvement at the same time in Pakistan’s internal affairs.
The military spokesman also dismissed US concerns that Pakistan has been selectively targeting militant groups on its soil. He said that 900 terrorists have been killed in Khyber operation.
It is also home to other armed groups, such as the Haqqani network and Afghan Taliban, who fight worldwide forces in neighbouring Afghanistan. Afghan political and military leadership, Resolute Support Mission and other stakeholders were taken on board before starting the operation. LeT, we all know and we all spoken out against had an impact on India, directly.
While giving update on achievements of operation Zarb-e-Azb, he said that 3,500 terrorists have so far been killed while their 992 hide outs destroyed.
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He added that abduction for ransom cases also went down to 89 per cent after the operation in the port city.
