Chief of Army Staff,
General Raheel Sharif visited National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) located
near Kharian and inaugurated state of the art features to upgrade its
infrastructure to accommodate foreign Armies and our own LEAs' growing demand
for training with Pak Army.
Addition of new facilities have turned NCTC as the
best counter terrorism training facility amongst the contemporary Armies. COAS
was briefed by Lt Gen Umar Farooq Durrani, Commader of the strike Corps about various
aspects of NCTC and apprised COAS that so far 231000 troops of armed forces and
3483 officers and men of Police and Civil Armed Forces have been trained at
NCTC.
He said that beside imparting anti terrorists training at the centre, 5
Joint exercises have also been conducted at NCTC with friendly countries which
include China, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Srilanka, Maldives and Turkey.
Defence Attache of various countries were also present at the occasions.
COAS appreciated all those responsible for
imparting training at NCTC with a focused approach in enhancing capacity
building of LEAs through quality training making best use of this fully
equipped facility.
General Raheel Sharif said that Pakistan has been
victim of terrorism for over a decade and sacrificed a lot but we have turned
the tide against terrorism primarily due to resilience displayed by the whole
Nation and professionalism of our security forces.
COAS while speaking to officers and men said that
let there be no doubt that our valiant armed forces have the capability to
counter complete threat spectrum and Inshaallah with the backing of entire
nation we will defend each and every inch of our beloved country, no matter
what the cost.
