RAW operating from Afghanistan to sabotage CPEC: Gen Zubair Hayat

CJCSC says Pakistan is fully aware of the designs of hostile agencies

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Hayat on Saturday said India's premier spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), is operating from Afghanistan to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

"Indian intelligence is operating from Afghanistan to sabotage the multi-billion dollar CPEC project," Radio Pakistan quoted the CJCSC as saying while addressing a passing out parade of Naval Cadets in Karachi.



"Pakistan is fully aware of the designs of hostile agencies especially RAW against the country,” the CJCSC said. “Peace and tranquility in Afghanistan is key for security in the region,” he further asserted.

The CJCSC upheld the being loyal to Pakistan is the top priority of every Pakistani.

"Pakistan Navy has played a pivotal role in defending the country’s sovereignty," he added.

In February this year, Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa had said that terrorists from Afghanistan were carrying out attacks in Pakistan with impunity.

“Most of the [terrorist] incidents in Pakistan are claimed by terrorist organisations with leadership hiding in Afghanistan,” the military’s top spokesman had quoted Gen Qamar as telling Gen John Nicholson, the commander of the Resolute Support Mission, in a telephone conversation.

Expressing concerns over the continued acts of terrorism in Pakistan with impunity from Afghanistan, the army chief told the US general that “such terrorist activities and inaction against them are testing our current policy of cross-border restraint”.