A 19-year-old Pakistan Military cadet was martyred in a terrorist assault on a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Lakki Marwat district, the army’s media wing mentioned on Friday.
In response to the Inter-Providers Public Relations, Cadet Arif Ullah was providing prayer within the mosque when the assault passed off.
“As quickly as Khwarij began firing, he instantly responded and fought the khwarij bravely,” it said.
“Nevertheless, through the incident, Gentleman Cadet Arif Ullah embraced martyrdom, sacrificing his life, whereas saving many harmless lives of worshippers.”
The cadet was present process coaching in Pakistan Navy Academy, Kakul however had returned to his hometown of Lakki Marwat on depart, the army’s media wing added.
The ISPR famous that such heinous and cowardly act of attacking worshippers within the mosque whereas praying displays the true ideology of those terrorists.
“[The] valiant act of a younger Gentleman Cadet is a testomony of spirit of sacrifice and dedication of Safety Forces’ personnel to remove the menace of terrorism from the nation and such sacrifices additional strengthen our resolve,” it added.
In the meantime, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the assault on the mosque, paying tributes to the martyred cadet.
The president mentioned Islam doesn’t permit finishing up assaults on locations of worship and mosques. “Attacking the locations of worship was a really cowardly and un-Islamic act”.
PM Shehbaz, in a separate assertion, famous that Cadet Arif Ullah set an instance of braveness and bravado by thwarting the cowardly assault on harmless worshippers.
The cadet, who was on depart, couldn’t tolerate harmless residents turning into victims of terrorism, he mentioned including that the spirit of patriotism and loyalty to the homeland exhibited by the Pakistan Military was unmatched wherever on the planet.
Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant assaults because the Taliban authorities returned to energy in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021, principally within the northwestern border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but additionally in southwestern Balochistan, which abuts Afghanistan and Iran.
Islamabad accuses Kabul’s interim rulers of failing to root out militants sheltering on Afghan soil as they put together to stage assaults on Pakistan.
Earlier within the day, it was reported that ten Frontier Constabulary (FC) troopers had been martyred in a fierce assault carried out by terrorists on a verify publish in Dera Ismail Khan district.
An inside ministry’s spokesperson detailed that the terrorists outfitted with heavy weaponry focused Zam FC verify publish in DI Khan’s Darazinda space underneath cowl of darkness late Thursday evening.