Pakistani army chief vows to block passage of IS militants

摘要

Pakistan's army chief, General Raheel Sharif, publicly promised for the first time on 19 November to block the entry of Iraq- and Syria-based Islamic State (IS) militants into Pakistan or Afghanistan, underlining an important new strategic objective for the South Asian country's armed forces. In recent weeks, reports from Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and southwestern Baluchistan province have suggested that local Islamic militants were seeking to establish ties with IS militants.