Armed Forces capable to defend country’s frontiers: COAS

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has said that the Armed Forces were capable enough to defend the territorial frontiers of the country and would defend it at all costs. The COAS was addressing the Corps Commanders Conference at GHQ here on Thursday. He said that Pakistan was capable of defending its frontiers and it would not bear any external aggression at into the country’s territorial frontiers as well as internal matters. Kayani said that since 9/11, Pakistan was playing a vital role in the war on terror and conducted a number of successful military operations against terrorists throughout the country especially in the tribal region along Pak-Afghan border. The military commanders discussed the security situation in the country in depth. All corps commanders and principal staff officers attend the conference. The conference was held at a time when the US has commissioned "a new, more comprehensive military strategy for the region that covers both sides of that border."