Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Asif Ghafoor Tuesday said Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad achieved positive results and army will continue its role to provide security in the country with the assistance of other institutions. Speaking to a private television channel, he said Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was launched to consolidate the gains made in the earlier operations and to undertake campaign of deweaponisation and put an end to the facilitators of terrorists as per the spirit of the National Action Plan (NAP).
The operation has no timeline and it is an operation of every Pakistani and all institutions, he added. "We will carry out the operation with the mutual assistance of other institutions." He said, "the name of the operation sends a message that we as a nation have to get together to counter those who are working to destabilise Pakistan. We have to bring peace and stability to Pakistan." He said Pakistan had conducted many operations before, adding earlier operations in Swat, FATA and North Waziristan were meant to establish writ of the state.