Kayani also lauded the cooperation and professional services delivered by the corps commanders.
The Pakistan Army chief said the military was capable and equipped to deal with any challenge, adding that the troops had been trained to modernize from a professional point of view.
Fifty-seven-year-old Lt Gen Raheel Sharif, who is considered an old India hand and whose elder brother died in the 1971 war with India, was chosen by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the new Army chief yesterday.
Kayani, is the longest serving Army chief under a civilian government in the history of Pakistan.
