DG ISPR Interaction with Students of APS

APS Students talk to DG ISPR

Transcript

00:00What is the strategy of Pakistan Army in combating terrorism?

00:06This new wave of terrorism and who is to blame for this terrorism?

00:09The first thing is that this strategy of counter-terrorism is not made by the army or the army, it is

00:15made at the national level.

00:16In this, the job of law enforcement or the army is to fight the terrorists.

00:20And there is a counter-terrorism strategy at the national level, but that counter-terrorism

00:24strategy includes multiple things.

00:26In this, our job is to fight the terrorists, there should be a powerful judicial criminal

00:29system.

00:30In which fast-track punishments should be given to those who are involved in terrorism

00:34or are involved in the facilitation of terrorism.

00:36In that, there is a point that there is a very big nexus of terrorism and crime.

00:40That terror-crime nexus should be broken.

00:43As long as you are at all these points, the various stakeholders, they will not work,

00:48then terrorism will continue to run.

00:50The army has a separate strategy, which is called clear, hold, build and transfer.

00:56That means that if terrorists come in any area, then the army will go and the army will

01:01clear that area from the terrorists.

01:04After that, to build it, it will hold it for some time, so that the army has got there,

01:11is holding that area and then the local government and the provincial government are going to

01:16build that and take them over, transfer them to us.

01:19So what happened is that since this war has been going on, the army has cleared the area

01:24of about 46,000 square kilometers from the terrorists, mostly in KPK.

01:30And we clear many areas, we hand them over again to the district administration, the

01:35local authorities, the terrorists come again, then we clear again.

01:39So now is it not the job of the army to set up checkposts there and sit on the roads and

01:44do policing?

01:46So it's the other stakeholders that needs to raise their game.

01:55It's not the army's job to root out the terrorism.

01:59Our job is to take on the terrorists.

02:02Terrorism is a much bigger thing.

02:05It's a much complex thing.

02:16We all have to, in synergy, in unison, fight it out.

02:34So we don't blame anyone.

02:38We are trying to say,

02:41You do your work, we are doing ours.

02:44And we are ready to do it.