General Raheel visits US military training centre

Army chief visits Stanford. Says sacrifice of Pakistanis needs to be understood by the world

CALIFORNIA: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif visited the Fort Irwin National Training Centre as his US tour continues, Express News reported on Saturday. 

Spokesperson of Pakistan's armed forces Asim Bajwa took to his twitter account, tweeting that General Raheel Sharif visited the US Military National Training Centre (NTC) at Fort Irvin, California.

#COAS visited US Mil National Training Centre(NTC) at Fort Irvin,California today.Reviewed/appreciated US trg system pic.twitter.com/pjRkdzHvgY

— Gen(R) Asim Saleem Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) November 22, 2014

The training centre is the main training centre of the US troops.

The army chief reviewed the training system of the US team and appreciated their efforts.

He was further briefed on their training methods and advanced warfare equipment.

Later, Gen Raheel visited Stanford where he presented Pakistan's perspective.

He said that Pakistanis have stood together, braved the menace of terrorism, and have paid a huge price. He added that the sacrifice of Pakistanis needs to be understood by the world.

#Stanford/US:#COAS Interacted,Gave #Pak perspective;Pakistanis one of the greatest,bravest, most resilient nation-1/2 pic.twitter.com/H1Gc4GnQ0V

— Gen(R) Asim Saleem Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) November 22, 2014

#Stanford/#US:#COAS-#Pakistanis stood together,braved menace of terrorism,paid huge cost,given max sacrifice.Needs understood by world-2/2

— Gen(R) Asim Saleem Bajwa (@AsimBajwaISPR) November 22, 2014

Earlier this week, General Raheel had held in-depth discussions on the ongoing security issues between Pakistan and US, and both sides had reaffirmed a mutual desire to strengthen their relationship.