Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Photo: File

RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday said that the Pakistan army will continue to defend the motherland at all costs.

"The Pakistan army has, is, and will continue to defend the motherland," the COAS said. "We salute the martyrs [who have laid their lives for Pakistan]."

Pakistan is a resilient nation, a tweet by the DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor said. 

?Hostile foreign to destabilise Pakistan have been exposed and continue to be defeated,? Major General Ghafoor said.