Rawalpindi, Sept 29: Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani has reportedly expressed satisfaction over the role of the local tribesmen in the Bajaur Agency in supporting his country’s Army in its fight against Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

In several incidents over the past weeks, the tribesmen in the Bajaur Agency have dragged the militants belonging to the Pakistan unit of the Taliban – the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) out of their areas. At times, the tribesmen also used weapons in chasing the terrorists away.

Islamabad, Sept 22 : A day after Saturday’s massive bomb blast at Hotel Marriott, Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani has reportedly vowed to eliminate terrorism from his country by defeating the extremist forces.

Condemning the bomb attack, the General said the Army stood with the Pakistani nation in its resolve to fight terrorism.

Islamabad, Sept 11 : Pakistan Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani has categorically said that no external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan and that his country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would be defended at all costs.

Kayani said that the US forces should show patience and desist from unilateral strikes on Pakistani soil, else it may prove “counter-productive”.

Islamabad, Aug 13 : Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that his country’s Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani was “highly professional and pro-democracy”, by not interfering into the process of impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf.

Gilani said this while speaking to reporters in response to a question about the role of the Pakistan Army in politics of the country.

“I want to assure you that COAS Gen Kayani is a highly professional officer and he is pro-democracy,” the Daily Times quoted Gilani as saying.

Islamabad, July 26: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held separate meetings with President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, before Gilani embarks upon his first official visit to the US.

General Kayani has been frequently visiting Musharraf and the Prime Minister House since the February 18 elections.

Washington, July 21: In the eyes of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is a master manipulator.

A New York Times report says that American officials describe General Kayani “as a smart and urbane general, at once engaging and inscrutable, an avid golfer with occasionally odd affectations.”

At meetings, he is known to spend several minutes carefully hand-rolling a cigarette, and after taking one puff, stubs it out.

Most CIA veterans agree that relations between CIA and Pakistan’s ISI is like a bad marriage, in which both spouses have long stopped trusting each other but would never think of breaking up because they have become so mutually dependent.