Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday emphasised the need for indigenous peace and developing a medium for resolving all bilateral issues peacefully among countries as he advised that the price of status quo will be devastating for all of us. What could conceivably be his last address at the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul as he’s set to retire by the end of November, the Chief of Army Staff( COAS) said that the “ world has changed, so should we as the price of status quo will be devastating for all of us.

Without naming any country, the 61- time-old Pakistan Army principal stressed the need for indigenous peace and developing a medium for resolving all bilateral issues peacefully. We must give peace a chance by developing a medium to resolve all our bilateral issues peacefully. also, as opposed to fighting each other, we should inclusively fight hunger, poverty, ignorance, population explosion, climate change and complaint, he said. The world has changed, so should we as the price of status quo will be devastating for all of us, he said.

In his address,Gen. Bajwa said that in our hunt for peace, we’ve extended sincere and each- out sweats to evolve good neighbourly relations with all our neighbours and indigenous countries. We’re trying our stylish to break the political logjam which has denied the countries of South Asia to move forward and resolve all indigenous and bilateral issues in a peaceful and staid manner. The Army chief said that the people of South Asia, like the rest of the world, justified substance and better living conditions, which was only possible through sustained profitable growth, development and over all, lasting peace.

thus, we must strive hard to keep the dears of war down from the region, he said. During his term, Pakistan and India came to the point of full war in 2019 in the wake of Pulwama attack and posterior events. still, it was also during his time when the two sides agreed to restore ceasefire along the LoC in 2021, creating a hint of stopgap for peace.Relations between India and Pakistan have been strained over the Kashmir issue andcross-border terrorism expiring

from Pakistan. The ties between the two countries nosedived after India disannulled Composition 370 of the Constitution, repealing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcating the State into two Union homes on August 5, 2019. Following India’s decision, Pakistan downgraded politic ties with New Delhi and expelled the Indian envoy. India has forcefully told Pakistan that terrorism and addresses can not go together.

In his address, Bajwa also advised that Pakistan’s desire for peace shouldn’t be taken as a symbol of weakness. No boneshould make any mistake about our collaborative resoluteness to defend our core interests and every inch of our motherland, he said.He claimed that the Pakistan Army had successfully turned the drift of the imminence of terrorism in the last two decades and has assured that systematized terrorism is decisively embedded out from Pakistan. This is indeed a unique accomplishment that not numerous countries or armies can claim, he said.

General Bajwa, who in his own words has been in livery for about 42 times, came principal of the army staff in November 2016 for a three- time term, which was extended for another term in 2019. still, he’ll retire by the end of November, If everything goes by the book.