"If we can become a nuclear power, we can also become an economic power but for it we have to strive day and night and prove to the world that we are no less than anyone," the prime minister said.
The nation owes its peace and stability to the selfless devotion and sacrifices rendered by officers and soldiers who are our real heroes, Chief of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa said on Tuesday. Paying tribute to martyrs and ghazis, General Bajwa said that there was “no cause more noble than laying down one’s life for the motherland and sacrifices of our martyrs will not go to waste”. The army chief was addressing at an investiture ceremony to confer military awards to Army personnel for their acts of valour and gallantry held at General Headquarters, Rawalpindi. Later, the COAS conferred military awards on army personnel for acts of gallantry during operations and meritorious ser.