RAWALPINDI: Colonel Sohail Abid of military intelligence on Thursday laid to rest with full military honour, ARY News reported.
Expressing immense grief, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa said, “When a soldier sacrifices his life I lose part flesh of my body, that night is always difficult to pass. But we remain fully determined to sacrifice anything and everything for the defence of our motherland.”
The colonel was martyred during an an intelligence-based operation conducted by security forces in Balochistan in which a key leader of Lashkar-e-Jhanhvi (LeJ) and two would-be suicide bombers were killed.