Pak cancels military parade for third consecutive year over security concerns
By ANISunday, February 7, 2010
LAHORE - Pakistan has cancelled the annual military day parade for the third consecutive year, citing security reasons.
The Joint Staff Headquarters, which organises of the annual event, has conveyed its decision to cancel the parade to the country’s top political leadership in Islamabad, The Daily Times reports.
According to sources, the Joint Staff Headquarters has ‘credible intelligence reports of serious security threats’ during the military parade.
Pakistan has been witnessing a wave of terror attacks since the Army launched a major offensive against extremists in the tribal regions in April last year.
A surge in bloodshed has left more than 1500 people dead as Pakistani security forces, under intense international pressure, launched a major offensive against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the ungoverned tribal belt of the country along the Afghanistan border.
Pakistan’s fragile civilian government is faced by acute economic and security crises, with the army fighting a Taliban insurgency in the northwest. (ANI)
