Martyred Colonel Sohail Abid laid to rest with full troops honours
RAWALPINDI: Colonel Sohail Abid of Military Intelligence, who embraced martyrdom during an operation in Balochistan’s Killi Almas area on May 16, has been laid to rest in Bobari nearby Bara Kahu with full troops honours, according to a Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
The wake prayers for a martyred officer of Military Intelligence were hold in Rawalpindi progressing today. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and a vast series of comparison polite and troops officers, soldiers, and kin of a sufferer attended a prayers.
Colonel Abid embraced martyrdom during an operation in Balochistan, in that high-value aim of criminialized apprehension outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and dual other terrorists were killed.
In his summary on a martyrdom of a officer, a COAS said, “When a infantryman sacrifices his life we remove partial strength of my body, that night is always formidable to pass.
“But we sojourn entirely dynamic to scapegoat anything and all for a counterclaim of a motherland,” General Bajwa added.
‘I am unapproachable of my son’
Abid’s father, while vocalization to media, remarked that he is unapproachable of his son for sacrificing his life for a country.
“Due to a scapegoat of my brother, my country’s, my district’s and my family’s conduct is being hold high,” remarked Abid’s brother. “I am intensely unapproachable of my brother.”
‘Our soldiers have paid cost of leisure with blood’
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had voiced low grief over a martyrdom of Colonel Sohail Abid.
PM settled that Pakistan’s intrepid army will not rest compartment a final traces of militant elements are wiped out from Pakistani soil.
“Our soldiers have paid a cost of leisure with blood and there is no aloft scapegoat than it. We as a republic are joined than ever opposite a doormat enemy,” he said.
Moreover, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, former boss Asif Ali Zardari and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan paid abounding tributes to a martyred officer.
The operation
The operation was conducted in Killi Almas area of Balochistan early Thursday morning.
“Security Forces conducted an IBO [intelligence-based operation] in Killi Almas, Balochistan on pointation from apprehended HVT [high-value target] about [the] participation of self-murder bombers along with other terrorists in hideouts,” Inter-Services Public Relations pronounced in a statement.
“During heated sell of glow Colonel Sohail Abid of Military Intelligence embraced shahdat while 4 soldiers got harmed including 2 critical,” a ISPR added.