Large scale operation sign in Pakistan

Minister Asif made remarks on the suicide attack in Peshawar at the National Assembly. Recalling the attack on the Peshawar military school in December 2014, which killed more than 150 people, most of them children, Asif said that successful counter-terrorism operations were carried out from 2010 to 2017.

Expressing that there is a need for a national consensus to launch a large-scale operation against terrorism, Asif said: “We planted the seeds of terrorism ourselves.” saying.

Asif claimed that when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan offered rental services to the United States.

Emphasizing that the US withdrew from the region after the defeat of the USSR, Pakistan was left to fend for itself in the 1990s and then 9/11 happened, Asif said that Pakistan was involved in a new war at that time.

Asif noted that with Islamabad’s involvement in these two wars, the conflicts moved to homes, schools and bazaars in Pakistan.

Stating that Pakistan should have good relations with the US, Asif said: “But we should not fight for their orders or international influence. First we have to put our country in order. Our country is not in order.” he said.

WHAT HAPPENED?

In Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 100 people were killed and 225 injured in a suicide attack on a mosque during midday prayer yesterday.

Pakistan launched a large number of military operations in the regions near the border with Afghanistan in 2010 due to the increase in terrorist attacks.

After the terrorist attack on the military school in Peshawar in 2014, the severity of army operations increased, and by 2017, the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) had been virtually terrorism-free.