ISLAMABAD: Director General ISPR Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor clarified that Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa did not spoke about distribution of money among released protesters of Faizabad sit-in, while briefing senators on security in an extraordinary in-camera session on Tuesday.
The DG ISPR, while speaking in Samaa’s talk-show “Nadeem Malik Live”, said that General Bajwa has not said that Rs.1,000 were distributed among each released protester on the directives of the Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
He said the meeting held in a ‘very cordial environment’.
Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor said the army has reiterated that the democratic system of the country has no threat from the military.
Earlier, there were media reports that the army chief, while briefing the session, rejected all accusations pertaining to military’s role in the sit-in, saying that the allegations are baseless.
General Bajwa briefed the Senate Committee of the Whole House on national security during an extraordinary in-camera session presided over by Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani.
The brain-storming session lasted for four hours.