Islamabad: P akistan's former Army Chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif will speak at the annual meeting of World Economic Forum in Switzerland, discussing security issues. This is the first time that a former army chief of Pakistan has been invited to speak at the WEF, The Express Tribune reported. Though, Gen Pervez Musharraf also addressed the forum but as the head of a state.Raheel would highlight Pakistan Army's counter-insurgency operations and improved security environment in the country as well as in the region besides discussing opportunities under multi-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The annual WEF meetings will start from 17 January and continue for four days. He will address three sessions of the WEF in addition to speaking at as many events arranged on the sidelines of the sessions. This includes a dinner by Munich Security Conference. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif last week said that Raheel had been appointed the commander of the
