RAWALPINDI: A 19-year-old cadet embraced martyrdom when armed terrorist opened hearth on mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district, the Inter-Providers Public Relations (ISPR) mentioned on Friday.
In a press release, the army’s media wing mentioned Cadet Arif Ullah was providing prayers within the mosque when the assault occurred.
“As quickly as Khwarij began firing, he instantly responded and fought the khwarij bravely,” it said.
“Nonetheless, throughout 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 Army Academy, Kakul however had returned to his hometown of Lakki Marwat on go away, 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 get rid of 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 go away, 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 this planet.
Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant assaults because the Taliban authorities returned to energy in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2021, largely within the northwestern border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but in addition 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 have been martyred in a fierce assault carried out by terrorists on a test put up in Dera Ismail Khan district.
An inside ministry’s spokesperson detailed that the terrorists geared up with heavy weaponry focused Zam FC test put up in DI Khan’s Darazinda space underneath cowl of darkness late Thursday evening.