COAS, CJCSC attend funeral prayer of Capt Fahad

• Fahad embraced shahadat in IED blast in Balochistan
• Four soldiers were also martyred in the incident
• ISPR said security forces remained determined

RAWALPINDI: Funeral prayer (Namaz e Janaza) of Captain Muhammad Fahad Khan, who embraced shahadat recently in an IED blast near Kahan area of Balochistan, was offered at Army Graveyard Rawalpindi.

The media wing of armed forces, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, General Syed Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), and a large number of senior civil and military officers, soldiers, citizens and relatives of the shaheed attended the prayer.

The ISPR said the martyr was buried with full military honour.

On December 25, Capt Fahad and four soldiers of Pakistan Army were martyred during an intelligence based operation in Balochistan, the media wing of military had reported.

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“Based on credible intelligence, a clearance operation is underway in Kahan area of Balochistan since 24 Dec 2022. Today, an IED exploded close to the leading party. Resultantly, Captain Fahad along with four other brave sons of soil Lance Naik Imtiaz, Sepoy Asghar, Sepoy Mehran and Sepoy Shamoon have embraced Shahadat, laying their lives in defence of the motherland against an externally perpetrated threat of terrorism,” the ISPR had said.

The ISPR had said such cowardly acts by inimical elements could not sabotage the hard earned peace and prosperity in Balochistan. It had said security forces remained determined to challenge their nefarious designs, even at the cost of blood and lives.

“The sanitisation operation continues in the area to apprehend the perpetrators,” the media wing had relayed.

Earlier, a Pakistan Army soldier was martyred and a terrorist killed during an exchange of fire in Zhob area of Balochistan on December 25.