Rana Mashhood’s statement is baseless and regrettable: DG ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor has termed the statement of PML-N leader Rana Mashhood as irresponsible and baseless.

“Attribution of an obvious vested statement by Rana Mashhood is baseless and regrettable. Such irresponsible expressions are detrimental to stability in the country,” he said in a statement on his official Twitter handle.

Mashhood made headlines yesterday during a TV interview in which he appeared to suggest that a key institution played a role in Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) victory in the 2018 elections.

The controversy began with an interview the PML-N leader gave to a private TV channel. During the interview, Mashhood was asked whether the civil-military tensions that had reportedly marred the tenure of the last PML-N government still existed after the end of the party’s rule.

He went on to say that the situation had improved. “I think because ‘they’ have now realised that those whom they had considered horses, are not able to deliver,” he was heard in a video footage as saying.

In another interview later in the day, Mashhood claimed that the PTI government in Punjab would cease to exist within the next two months or so and be replaced by his own party’s setup.

He also denied saying that a “deal” was in the works with the establishment to bring the PML-N back to power in Punjab.

WATCH: ‘Our relations with the Establishment improved’: Rana Mashhood

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