{"id":62483,"date":"2025-01-14T21:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=62483"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T02:51:18","slug":"coas-gen-asim-munir-emphasizes-unity-against-terrorism-reaffirms-ties-with-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/coas-gen-asim-munir-emphasizes-unity-against-terrorism-reaffirms-ties-with-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"COAS Gen Asim Munir emphasizes unity against terrorism, reaffirms ties with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/coas-gen-aim-munir-vows-unyielding-fight-against-terrorism-during-peshawar-visit\/\">General Syed Asim Munir<\/a> has reiterated Pakistan\u2019s desire for positive relations with<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bus-accidents-in-central-afghanistan-leave-52-dead\/\"> Afghanistan<\/a>, saying that differences arise only over the presence of extremist elements and cross-border terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to political leaders in Peshawar, General Asim Munir highlighted that attempts to create a rift between the people and the army are being made by foreign agendas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existence of the state is the most important. If there is a state, then politics can happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>General Asim Munir clarified that no large-scale operations are being carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and targeted operations were carried out only on the basis of intelligence. He stressed unity against terrorism, saying, \u201cCreating chaos is a big sin, and without the state, nothing matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of learning from mistakes and accelerating work on the National Action Plan, which has the collective support of all parties.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, the army chief said that terrorism has no place in society and the efforts of the security forces to eradicate this evil are commendable.<\/p>\n<p>He was given a comprehensive briefing on the current security situation and the ongoing counter-terrorism operations targeting Fitna-ul-Khawarij. The briefing was also attended by the Federal Interior Minister and the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir has reiterated Pakistan\u2019s desire for positive relations with Afghanistan, saying that differences arise only over the presence of extremist elements and cross-border terrorism. Speaking to political leaders in Peshawar, General Asim Munir highlighted that attempts to create a rift between the people and the army are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[389,673,9251,111],"class_list":["post-62483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-coas","tag-general-syed-asim-munir","tag-pak-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62485,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62483\/revisions\/62485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}