{"id":6364,"date":"2025-10-10T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:11:28","slug":"6364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/10\/6364","title":{"rendered":"‘Political-criminal nexus’ behind terrorism in KP, National Action Plan remains unimplemented: DG ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rawalpindi:<\/strong> Pakistan Army spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry<\/strong> has said that the recent wave of terrorism across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<\/strong> and other parts of the country stems from a nexus of political interests, local facilitators, and foreign powers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Addressing a major press conference at Corps Headquarters Peshawar<\/strong>, the DG ISPR expressed concern that the National Action Plan (NAP)<\/strong> has not been fully implemented. He lamented that even on an issue as sensitive as terrorism, \u201cpolitical point-scoring\u201d continues, which, he said, has divided the nation and ultimately benefited terrorists.<\/p>\n

According to the army spokesperson, 10,115 intelligence-based operations (IBOs)<\/strong> were conducted in 2025, during which 917 terrorists were killed<\/strong> and 516 Pakistanis embraced martyrdom<\/strong>. He revealed that terrorists continue to infiltrate from Afghanistan<\/strong>, adding that there have been 30 suicide attacks launched from Afghan soil<\/strong>, involving Afghan nationals.<\/p>\n

Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif noted that the conviction rate in terrorism cases remains alarmingly low<\/strong>, with the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD)<\/strong> lacking the required capacity. He disclosed that 2,878 terrorism-related cases<\/strong> in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been pending for several years, and not a single terrorist has been convicted<\/strong> so far.<\/p>\n

The DG ISPR emphasized that the fight against terrorism cannot be won through military action alone, calling for collective seriousness from the judiciary, police, intelligence agencies, and political leadership<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He warned, \u201cIf only one point of the National Action Plan is being implemented and the rest are ignored, how can we dream of ending terrorism completely?\u201d<\/p>\n

Accusing India<\/strong> of using Afghan territory for anti-Pakistan activities, Lt Gen Sharif also criticized opposition to the repatriation of Afghan refugees, saying, \u201cWhen peace has been restored in Afghanistan, why politicize the return of refugees?\u201d<\/p>\n

The army spokesperson issued a stern warning to facilitators, offering them three choices<\/strong> \u2014 surrender terrorists to the state, cooperate with the government, or face the state\u2019s power.<\/p>\n

Concluding his briefing, he displayed images of Pakistan\u2019s martyrs, remarking, \u201cPoliticizing their sacrifices is a national crime. The nation and the state will together win the war against terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rawalpindi: Pakistan Army spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said that the recent wave of terrorism across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of the country stems from a nexus of political interests, local facilitators, and foreign powers. Addressing a major press conference at Corps Headquarters Peshawar, the DG ISPR expressed concern that the National …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3219],"tags":[3650,3647,3649,3646,160,3648,953,3037,2294],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ispr","tag-516-pakistanis-embraced-martyrdom","tag-corps-headquarters-peshawar","tag-counter-terrorism-department","tag-director-general-dg-inter-services-public-relations-ispr","tag-headline","tag-intelligence-agencies","tag-ispr","tag-lieutenant-general-ahmed-sharif-chaudhry","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}