PESHAWAR, Nov 12: Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen Muhammad Yousaf Khan has urged officers and jawans to concentrate on their jobs and enhance professional skills to meet any eventuality.

He was speaking at a gathering of officers and jawans at the investiture ceremony of colonel commandant of armed corps at armoured corps centre at Nowshera.

General Khan urged the troops to devote all their energies to excel in their soldierly skills. “Armoured Corps is vanguard of Pakistan Army and your iron will can make it a double-edged weapon,” he said.

Later, Vice Chief of Army Staff General Muhammad Yousaf Khan confered the ranks of colonel commandant on Lieutenant-General Hamid Javed. Terming the selection of Lieutenant-General Hamid Javed as Colonel Commandant an ideal choice, General Yousaf hoped that armoured corps would live up to its traditions and high values under his able leadership.

Brigadier Dabeer Rizvi, Commandant of Armoured Corps Centre, in his welcome address briefed the guests about performance of training centre in recent years. Corps Commander Peshawar Lieutenant-General Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai, Inspector-General of Training & Evaluation Lieutenant-General Tauqir Zia, Major-General Malik Iftikhar Khan, Director-General Armoured Corps and other senior officers were present on the occasion.

Gen Khan also acknowledged the feat of valour from martyrs of armoured corps. He placed a floral wreath and offered fateha on a war memorial here at Armoured Corps Centre. A smartly turned out contingent of an armoured regiment presented the salute to pay respects to their great warriors who laid down their lives in the defence of their motherland.