RAWALPINDI – A rare war of words has taken place between Inter-ServicesPublic Relations (ISPR) Director General Asif Ghafoor and Member NationalAssembly (MNA) and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Mohsin Dawar.
The war of words took place over baseless allegations levelled by Dawar inrelation to the North Waziristan protest on August 26 in which one personwas allegedly killed.
Dawar said, “There is nothing peaceful about imposing curfews on IDPs &killing protestors exercising their basic rights. There is nothing“inimical” about demanding our rights enshrined in constitution. Truth willcome out when causes of militancy will b investigated.”
Preceding that, Major General Ghafoor from his private Twitter account hadsaid, “We don’t backtrack. We don’t mince words. There is no guilt inserving this great nation and the brave people of Waziristan. Truth can’tbe hidden. And soon you shall see it coming out about all the ‘inimicalforces’. We shall not allow anyone to reverse the gains of peace IA.”
The response had come as a result of Dawar’s tweet in which he had saidthat the security forces have been backtracking and hiding the truth. “Andyou are keeping your tradition of backtracking. Our one precondition forbeginning talks was an admission of guilt from your side, regarding themartyrdom of innocent protestors. We only began talks AFTER we were giventhat admission of guilt,” he had stated.
Before that, the ISPR DG had denied the alleged involvement of PakistanArmy’s personnel, namely Captain Zarar, as reported by the *Voice ofAmerica *(VOA)*. *It was further said that an inquiry to ascertain thefacts has been launched