Joint Chief of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Zubair Mehmood Hayat, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman and senior military officials also attended the meeting. The visits of US State Secretary Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary Jim Mattis were also seen by the committee as robust and forward-looking. “Pakistanis are a nation that has contributed so significantly to regional and global security and peace,” they said. The committee observed that even today Pakistan was firmly supporting the US-led international effort in Afghanistan. They observed that Pakistan cannot be held responsible for the collective failure in Afghanistan and that blaming allies certainly does not serve the shared objective of achieving lasting peace in Afghanistan and the region.

Source: Pakistan Today January 02, 2018 18:45 UTC