Army decides to comb South Punjab

Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday chaired a crucial corps commanders' meeting at General Headquarters Rawalpindi. During the meeting, the army chief was briefed about the suicide blast at Mall Road of Lahore. The Army Chief also approved a combing operation inside southern Punjab during the meeting. Let it be known that the Punjab Government should be taken into confidence over the combing operation in southern Punjab, he said.
It was also decided at the Corps Commander's meeting that strict action would be taken against all those outfits that have become operational after changing their names. Earlier, the army chief also visited the residence of Captain Ahmed Mubeen ((Retd)) Shaheed and offered condolences to his family. General Bajwa on Tuesday said that terrorists of all hue and colour, their masters, financiers, planners, and abettors including from outside would be "hunted down across the country, held accountable and responded to."
"Our gains over the years cannot be reversed," he said while chairing a security meeting at Corps Headquarters in Lahore. Lieutenant General Sadiq Ali, Commander Lahore Corps and intelligence agencies briefed him on Monday evening's blast, an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) news release said. The CoAS said that such incidents could neither lower nationals resolve nor could such cowardly acts affect our ongoing efforts against terrorism.
He appreciated the efforts of intelligence agencies in tracing the suspects of the blast, including a few Afghans. Talking about blast's linkage to a plan aimed at sabotaging the forthcoming PSL Final match in Lahore, the CoAS said that army would extend full support to all concerned for holding the event as scheduled.Later, the CoAS visited the bereaved family of shaheed DIG Mubeen and offered Fateha.
Talking to the mother of the Shaheed, the CoAS said that sacrifice of his brave son and those by the nation would not go waste. "We have to defeat this inhuman brutal mindset and as a nation we shall," he said. He also expressed his grief and condolences with other bereaved families of the blast. The CoAS also visited the injured at Services Hospital.