In a rare admission, Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Friday said Pakistan Army is the best army in the world.

“With our current achievements in the ongoing war on terror and standard of conventional war, ours is the best army,” General Raheel said, according to DG ISPR Lt Gen Asim Bajwa.
The army chief said Pakistan should remain ready for a full spectrum of threat. “We have to remain ready for full spectrum of threat-morale of troops sky high, combat fitness commended,” the head of the military’s media wing said on Twitter while quoting the army chief.
The army chief’s statements came as he monitored an exercise of the Pakistan Army’s Bahawalpur & Multan Corps which ended Friday morning in Cholistan desert
Earlier, the army chief had an Ariel view of the offensive manoeuvres during the military drills onbaord a combat attack helicopter.
Army chief General Raheel Sharif has said all available means must be utilised to respond to the full spectrum of threats.

According to the ISPR, the COAS arrived in Bahawalpur on a two-day visit to witness exercises by Bahawalpur and Multan formations in the Cholistan desert on Thursday.

He lauded the standards of training and expressed complete satisfaction on the operational preparedness of the troops, saying preparedness in peacetime was a guarantor of peace.