Peshawar attack: COAS vows to root out the menace of radicalism

After the deadly Peshawar blast that slayed at least 100 people, of which 97 were police officers, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir Friday vowed that the nation would work together for rooting out the menace of terrorism.

In the deadliest attack Pakistan has witnessed in several years, a suicide bomber in a police uniform infiltrated the heavily-guarded compound in Peshawar on Monday and blew himself up during afternoon prayers at a mosque.

During his visit to the Police Lines blast site, the army chief, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police is one of the pluckiest and have clashed as frontline forces against terrorism.