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May 9 perpetrators have to be punished as per law: DG ISPR


DG ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Director General (DG) ISPR Major General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said the May 9 perpetrators attempted to create a wedge between the people and the armed forces and they will have to be punished in accordance with the law and constitution of Pakistan.

Addressing a presser here on Tuesday DG ISPR said, an attempt was made to create hatred amongst the public and the army through this incident.

This case is the case of the entire nation not just the armed forces, he said.

Some political leaders gave clear orders to attack the army installations. People were brainwashed to attack against the army. Such people cannot be forgiven and they have to be punished according to the law and constitution of Pakistan

DG ISPR said Pakistan has fought a long war against terrorism, which is still going on.

The country is trying wholeheartedly to maintain peace in the region.

He said Pakistan has been helping Afghan refugees for a long time, adding that TTP terrorists operate in Pakistan using the territory of Afghanistan. He maintained that there was evidence of terrorism in Pakistan perpetrated by TTP terrorists. 

“The dots of recent terrorist incidents can be traced back to the terrorists in Afghanistan,” he asserted, adding that the agreement made by the Afghan government in Doha does not seem to have been implemented so far. 

“We will go to all possible extents to suppress the terrorists and their facilitators,” the ISPR chief stressed. 

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He further said that the decision to repatriate the foreign citizens residing illegally in Pakistan was made in the interest of the country, adding that millions of Afghan citizens were still living in Pakistan. 

“Terrorists are trying to disrupt peace in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” the ISPR chief stated, adding that on March 16, a check post was attacked in North Waziristan wherein soldiers were martyred. He also declared that, in response, terrorist hideouts were targeted in the border areas inside Afghanistan. 

Moreover, on March 20, an attack on the Gwadar Port Authority was foiled, Maj Gen Chaudhry said, adding that the attacks were planned in Afghanistan. The terrorists and their facilitators were being controlled from Afghanistan, he said, claiming that the suicide bomber was also an Afghan citizen. 

He further said the terrorist killed in the North Waziristan attack, identified as Habibullah, was also a resident of Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak. “The latest wave of terrorism in Pakistan is the result of supply of facilities and arms to the TTP from Afghanistan,”
he maintained.

The ISPR chief highlighted that army chief Gen Asim Munir has said there was no place for terrorists in Pakistan, adding that the involvement of Afghan citizens in terrorism in Pakistan was a deviation from the Doha Agreement of the interim Afghan government. 

“We will leave no stone unturned to destroy the network of terrorists,” he stressed, further adding that several terrorists were killed in the border area of Iran. 

More details to follow…

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