LAHORE – The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General,Major-General Asif Ghafoor said that a propaganda campaign is beinglaunched to create differences between Pakistan Army and the Nation.
He said on Tuesday that the country’s development is not the job of army,even then it is playing its part in the process of national development byconstructing roads, hospitals, setting up schools, colleges anduniversities.
The general was delivering a talk on the topic of “Role of Army in theDevelopment of Pakistan” here at the University of Management andTechnology (UMT), Lahore.
The DG ISPR said false propaganda is on the rise against the army aimed atcreating gulf between the nation and the army, so the people can startraising questions over the credibility of the institution, but thispropaganda he said won’t succeed as Pakistanis have the utmost faith in thearmy.
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Addressing the UMT students and the faculty, Major General Asif Ghafoorsaid: “In order to know the actual facts, we need to be neutral in judgingthe news circulating in media especially those on the social media as mostof them are not true and are rather fabricated. We must have our ownopinion unaffected by others and only believe the stuff which we can see,touch and hear. This is also what Islam tells us to authenticate theinformation that comes to your way prior to passing it on to others.” Hesaid: “Everyone by nature is fundamentalist and this is ok unless youdemonstrate and try to harm others through your behaviour.”
Differentiating between terrorism and fundamentalism, the ISPR DG said notevery fundamentalist is a terrorist, as “I am also a fundamentalist.”“(Similarly) not every terrorist relates himself with fundamentalism,” hesaid: “Western countries and Indians are also fundamentalists.” “If I’msomeone who wants everyone to view the world through my perspective, thenI’ll not be called a fundamentalist but an extremist,” Ghafoor said.
