Funeral prayers held
Funeral prayers of Lt Col Faisal Malik and Sepoy Zohaib Shaheed, who were killed in Shawal on Monday, were held at Army Graveyard, Race Course Ground in Rawalpindi.
A large number of senior serving and retired officers, including Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Corps Commander Rawalpindi Lt Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, DG Joint Staff Lieutenant General Najibullah Khan, other senior officers and relatives of the deceased offered the prayers.
The slain soldiers will be buried in their ancestral villages with full military honours.
Punjabi Lieutenant Colonel Faisal Malik
Sepoy Zohaib Shaheed photo is not published as his life is not important.
A lieutenant colonel and a soldier were killed during clashes between militants and Pakistan Army in the Shawal Area of North Waziristan on Monday, according to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).The news came after armed forced initiated a ground operation in the Shawal area of North Waziristan on August 20.
According to Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa, the ground operation was being carried out on the direction of the army chief, adding that air and ground offensives should be coordinated.
Army chief General Raheel Sharif directed all military objectives to be achieved as soon as possible.
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