Dera Ismail Khan (Web Desk): Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has expressed resolve of the Pakistani nation to eliminate the menace of terrorism from the country's soil.
He said this while talking to the media at the Combine Military Hospital (CMH) in DI Khan after inquiring about the health of the soldiers injured in Tuesday's terrorist attack, the Radio Pakistan reported on Wednesday.
The prime minister said the entire Pakistani nation is standing like an iron wall against the monster of terrorism and with the help of Allah Almighty and it is determined to defeat terrorism.
PM Kakar said that terrorists have already lost this war, while the state of Pakistan has emerged victorious and only formal announcement is to be made at an appropriate time.
"The security personnel, who are fighting this war of victory against terrorism are the real heroes," he asserted.
The prime minister said that the righteous Ulema are standing with the state of Pakistan, the peace, and the society.
He said terrorists will not succeed in terrifying us of death.
"With whom they are fighting? Do they want to frighten us with death? No one will be scared, " he said that the state was pursuing an unyielding policy of no surrender and no retreat.
PM Kakar said many thousand people had already sacrificed their lives in the war against terrorism and thousands more were ready to join the course.
"Thousands of our security personnel have laid down their lives in defence of the motherland and a long queue of our brave sons and daughters are ready to embrace martyrdom, but they are not ready to bow down before terrorists," he said.
PM Kakar also commended the high morale of the security personnel, who got injured in the attack.
He said Pakistan was a strong and resilient nation and its armed forces would thwart the nefarious designs of the enemies.
Caretaker Federal Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti, Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Haji Ghulam Ali and Caretaker KP Chief Minister Justice (Retd) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah accompanied the prime minister.