ISLAMABAD: India has not provided any evidence against Hafiz Saeed, DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor told an Indian newspaper.
In an interview with the Indian Express, link> link> link> DG ISPR link> said there is no evidence against JuD leader link> link>Hafiz Saeed link> and he has been discharged by the courts.
“Hafiz Saeed, you see, is under custody or confinement as possible according to the law in Pakistan,” he said. “Hafiz Saeed is a citizen of Pakistan and anything he does, other than violence is good.”
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Mr. Ghafoor said that there is a process in Pakistan for anyone to participate in politics.
“The Election Commission of Pakistan has its rules and laws,” he said. “If he (Hafiz Saeed) fulfills all those requirements that is for ECP to decide.”
Civil-military relationship
The link> link> link> DG ISPR link> dismissed the impression that the army is not allowing democracy to take deep roots.
“Please tell me who appoints the Army chief, the Navy chief and the Air chief in Pakistan?” he said, adding that “It is not the army, it is the civilian government.”
The civilian government is ruling the country as per the constitution, he said.
Message to India
The army spokesman said Pakistan believes in peace and cooperation.
“The war is not the solution,” Mr. Ghafoor said. However, he clarified that “if imposed on us, it will be befittingly responded”. APP