Summary Says militants who attacked Ziarat Residency, Quetta Air Base and Malala have been arrested.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News/Agencies) – ISPR Dg has said rejected Army’s role in resolving any political situation.
During a media briefing here on Friday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asim Bajwa said that Chief of Army Staff Raheel Sharif had had clearly stated that Army believed in democracy and supremacy of law in the country. He said that Army accepted role of facilitator in vast interest of country.
Bajwa also dispelled reports pertaining to difference with the Army and expressed displeasure over rumours of being ‘script writer’.
Asim Bajwa said that current political crisis must be resolved, adding that Army had reaffirmed its support to democracy.
ISPR chief said Zarb-e-Azb operation is proceeding according to plan and would continue till the elimination of the last terrorist.
He said similarly the terrorists involved in attacks on the Ziarat Residency, Quetta Air Base and Aviation Base in Quetta have been arrested. He said the attack on Naval Dockyard has been foiled.
ISPR DG informed the media that Army had arrested the gunmen who tried to kill schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the country s restive northwest in 2012.
Bajwa said the detention of the 10 men, a joint operation involving army, police and intelligence agencies, came as part of the Pakistani military s ongoing offensive against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other extremist outfits.
"The group involved in the attack on Malala Yousufzai has been arrested," Major General Asim Bajwa told a news conference.
He said the group was part of the TTP and the plan to kill Malala came from network s current leader Maulana Fazlullah.
The teenage activist was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen but recovered and went on to earn international plaudits for her fight for the right of all children to an education.
After narrowly surviving the assassination bid, Malala was taken to Britain with her family for treatment, where she now lives.
Her courageous recovery has made her a global figure -- she won the EU s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize last year and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
An address she gave to the United Nations General Assembly in July last year, in which she vowed she would never be silenced, earned her a standing ovation.
Malala first rose to prominence in 2009, aged just 11, with a blog for the BBC Urdu service chronicling life under Taliban rule in Swat, the beautiful valley in northwestern Pakistan where she lived.
