NEW DELHI: Pakistan Military DG ISPR earns surprise praise from Indiancyber security Chief.
Lt Gen (retd) Rajesh Pant praised Director General-Inter-Services PublicRelations (DG ISPR) for his information warfare tactics.
Pant on Saturday, criticising the public relations officers of the IndianArmy. Pant stressed on the need for a unified public relations command forthe three wings of the Indian armed forces. He praised Pakistan’s DG ISPRand said that “they [Pakistan Army] have got its act together” in thenarrative warfare.
The Indian cybersecurity chief was addressing a seminar titled ‘Securingthe Future Battlespace: Information and Space Warfare’.
Pant demanded an equivalent of the DG ISPR for the Indian Army. He saidthat the three wings of the Indian armed forces had their own publicrelations officers and “they are going in different ways”.
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“When are we going to have our own equivalent of the DG ISPR because the(Indian armed forces) services have their own PRs and they are going indifferent ways. Somebody at the national level now has to look at thenarrative warfare and how to implement it in various domains,” he wasquoted as saying by *The Times of India. *
The Indian cybersecurity chief said that ever since Pakistan Army createdthe DG ISPR post, “they have got their act together.”
He said that when the DG ISPR conducts a narrative warfare on occupiedKashmir, the Pakistan Army spokesperson tells the world that human rightswere being infringed in the occupied territory.
