Pakistan, Jan. 27 -- When Pakistan's security forces conducted their intelligence-based operation in Panjgur on 25 January, they did more than neutralise three terrorists. They delivered a message: the nation's defenders never sleep. The men eliminated were part of what our security apparatus identifies as Fitna al-Hindustan, a proxy network backed by hostile external forces that have long used insurgency as a tool against Pakistan's stability.

In an era when geopolitics is raw power and not polite rhetoric, Pakistan's Army remains the bulwark of national security. The Panjgur operation was, therefore, a calculated strike against violent agents of disruption who kill innocents on behalf of adversaries. The professionalism shown by our fo...