Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry. Photo: File
DG ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry (DG ISPR) assailed incarcerated former premier Imran Khan, calling him a “threat to national security” and warning that no one will be allowed to incite the public against the armed forces.
He said that Khan’s “anti-army” rhetoric has crossed the limits of politics and now poses a direct threat to the nation’s security.
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Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, the DG ISPR described a “creeping national security threat” that the military has deemed necessary to confront.
“Who are you? What message do you want to give? Who do you think you are?” quipped DG ISPR addressing Imran.
He described Imran as a “sick-minded person” and maintained “They [PTI] have a comical obsession with the Pakistan Army. They don’t talk about real issues, and that is their entire politics.”
“We cannot allow them to establish the business of fake news and lies in the country,” insisted Gen Chaudhry, adding that a dangerous narrative is being propagated. “This narrative that the military is the state is false. The military is not the state; the government is supreme.”
It is for the government not military to decide whether to ban meetings in Adiala and Imran’s social accounts, insisted DG ISPR. “They cannot create differences between Army and the people of Pakistan.”
