RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif Tuesday visited Kurram Agency where he was briefed on combing and intelligence-based operations, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

While expressing his satisfaction over the progress of combing operations and the resultant security environment, General Sharif appreciated the valour and gains made by troops.

“As we consolidate gains of kinetic operations in Fata, our emphasis is on rooting out all the sleeper cells and a network of facilitators from Fata and across rest of the country,” said the army chief.

“Our operations will continue across the board without any discrimination and Pakistan will not allow any terrorist to use its soil for terrorism against any other country.”

General Sharif also reviewed new deployments and structures being made to improve border management and directed stringent measures to check all cross border movement indiscriminately, in coordination with Afghan National Security Forces and Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.