UN security council: Pakistan will annihilate terrorists, says envoy

Ambassador to UN says Pakistan will defeat terrorism

UNITED NATIONS: A senior Pakistani diplomat has pledged the annihilation of terrorism from the country as he denounced the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. “The terrorist attacked our children and hit our heart ... now we will go for their jugular,” Pakistan’s Ambassador to UN Sahebzada Ahmed Khan told the United Nations Security Council on Friday. “Let me convey this message today that we will defeat terrorism,” he declared, while speaking in a debate on Terrorism and Cross-Border Crime.’ “Pakistan will prevail, no matter what; and our mourning will only morph into a stronger resolve to fight back, even harder,” the Pakistani envoy told delegates from around the world.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21^st, 2014.