RAWALPINDI: Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)Major General Babar Iftikhar on Thursday said that Pakistani armed forces’response against Indian aggression in February last year not only broughtdefeat but humiliation to Indian state and forces.
Addressing a press conference, Pakistan Army’s spokesperson, while reactingto statements issued by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) politiciansAyaz Sadiq and Zubair Umar, made it clear that the Indian Air Force pilotcaptured after Indian defeat on February 27, 2019, was repatriated as perthe requirements of Geneva Convention.
He added that the statement issued (by Ayaz Sadiq) yesterday tried todistort the facts surrounding this matter of national security.
“Such a narrative can harm national security at a time when the country isfacing a hybrid war,” warned the DG ISPR.
Maj General Babar Iftikhar said that Pakistan’s success in thwarting Indianplans was recognised the world over and its gesture of releasing the Indianpilot was appreciated.
“Pakistani forces’ timely response scared India so much that Indian AirForce planes that had come to drop the explosives on the Pakistani peopleescaped after dropping payload on empty mountains,” said the DG ISPR.
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He said that the Pakistan Army is a united force and there is no differencebetween rank and file of the armed forces. “Attempts are being made tocreate a controversy around Pakistan Army as an institution,” he said.
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The DG ISPR further rejected remarks of former Governor Sindh and PML-Nleader Zubair Umar and said that he was the spokesman of the armed forcesand would never speak ‘half-truth or half lies’.
“I have detailed what is truth,” he said adding that whatever he had saidregarding a meeting with Zubair Umar is on the record.
“There is an anger over attempts being made to target armed forces andcreating a controversy around the victory of the country after Pulwamaincident,” Major General Babar Iftikhar said while lamenting the recentremarks from the PML-N leaders.
