Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir has emphatically stated that Pakistan will protect its sovereignty and core national interests decisively and without hesitation.

Addressing Pakistan Navy Midshipmen and Short Service Commission Course parade in Karachi on Saturday, he said let it be known to all inimical forces who harbor nefarious designs against Pakistan that we are ever ready in our resolve to defend our motherland at all costs.

Referring to India’s recent unprovoked aggression and Pakistan’s crushing response to it, the Chief of Army Staff said the successes of Marka-e-Haq shall never recede from Indian memory.

He said our national spirit has only strengthened manifold in the face of adversity.

Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir said as we steadily build our comprehensive national path, any enemy acting on perceived vulnerability of Pakistan under the illusion of strategic impunity would get an assured, swift and very befitting response.