Staff Reporter
RAWALPINDI Funeral prayers for Capt Muhammad Osama Bin Arshad, who embraced martyrdom while defending the motherland in North Waziristan, were offered at Chaklala Garrison. Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Syed Asim Munir and a number of serving and retired military officers, soldiers and relatives of Osama attended the funeral, PM Office Media Wing said in a press release. On the occasion, the prime minister said these sacrifices reaffirmed their resolve to defeat terrorism in all its forms for a peaceful and prosperous Pakistan. “The nation stands resolute against these foreign-abetted terrorists and their facilitators and these adversaries of Pakistan will be comprehensively defeated through a multi-domain strategy based on whole-of-the-system approach,” the press release quoted the prime minister as having said. Captain Osama, a 24-year-old resident of Rawalpindi, was laid to rest with full military honours.
