[DAWN] During an interview with senior CNN journalist Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa on Monday night said that it was an insult to question the capability of the Pakistain Army in the fight against terrorism.Bajwa made the statement after Amanpour asked whether the Army was "up to" the task of fighting against bully boys.
"I would say this is an insult to the Pak people and Pak forces if you ask this kind of question. When I say we're very clear and we are capable of dealing with them," he said.
He also compared the performance and efficiency of Pakistain's military with that of the US and Isaf forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"If you see the nature of this conflict, you see the US forces in Iraq, then in Afghanistan, they've been there for so long, you look at the Isaf forces. The scale and magnitude of the forces and resources which are employed and look at the performance of Pak forces, they have done an excellent job," the DG ISPR said.
"I think there is no confusion in our mind that we have to go against the phenomenon of terrorism, against all terrorists, and their abettors," he added.
Answering a question about the armed forces' viewpoint of bully boy groups, the ISPR DG said: "There are no good terrorists.....We are going against all holy warriors without any discrimination of hue and color."
Bajwa added that the army had cleared a major part of the North
Wazoo tribal region during Operation Zarb-e-Azb..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
except for a small belt near the Pak-Afghan border.
He further said that the operation against bully boy groups was underway with air and gunship helicopter strikes and these were being followed by ground operations.
Responding to another question regarding the change in Pakistain's security situation following the measures adopted after the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
school massacre, Maj Gen Bajwa said: "There is a lot more security at the national level...there is a concept of security. That has been evolved and there is a review of security at every level. I think it is very difficult to guarantee that nothing of this kind happens anywhere in the world."
The military front man cited the example of the recent attack in Gay Paree and school shootouts that occur in the United States.