ISPR condemns Imran Khan’s ‘irresponsible remarks’ against military officer

RAWALPINDI: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has strongly condemned the ‘highly irresponsible remarks’ by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan against a senior officer of Pakistan Army, ARY News reported on Monday.

In a statement issued today, the military’s media wing said that Imran Khan has levelled ‘highly irresponsible and baseless allegations’ against a serving senior military officer ‘without any evidence’.

“These fabricated and malicious allegations are extremely unfortunate, deplorable and unacceptable,” the ISPR maintained.

It pointed out that this has been a ‘consistent pattern for last one year wherein military and intelligence agencies officials are targeted with insinuations and sensational propaganda for the furtherance of political objectives’.

“We ask the political leader [Imran Khan] to make a recourse to legal avenues and stop making false allegations,” the military’s media wing said.

The ISPR concluded by saying that the institution reserves the right to take legal course of action against patently false and malafide statements and propaganda.

A day earlier, PM Shehbaz Sharif lambasted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for ‘maligning and threatening’ Pakistan Army.

In a tweet, the prime minister said Imran Khan’s act of ‘routinely maligning and threatening Pakistan Army and Intelligence Agency’ for the sake of petty political gains was highly condemnable.

“Imran’s leveling of allegations without any proof against Gen Faisal Naseer and officers of our Intelligence Agency cannot be allowed and will not be tolerated,” he noted.