It is better for all of us to avoid unnecessary speculation on this matter, says Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar
\n islamabad
\nReiterating earlier stance that the army has nothing to do with the politics in the country, Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar urged not to speculate in this regard.
\n\u201cIt is better for all of us to avoid unnecessary speculation on this matter,\u201d the military\u2019s top spokesperson said while addressing a news conference on Thursday.
\nHe said that this had been the stance of the Pakistan Army and \u201cwill continue to be its stance\u201d, urging everyone to avoid speculation.
\nThe statement comes a few hours after Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain painted the top opposition leadership as anti-army and linked their no-confidence motion to their long-standing unfulfilled desire to have political control over the institution.
\n\u201cUnder the constitutional scheme,\u201d the government\u2019s spokesperson while replying to a question said, \u201cThe army always stands by the sitting government.\u201d
\nThe army has to obey the Constitution, he added.
\nFawad\u2019s news conference was loaded with video clips and news stories that, apparently, conveyed that the opposition leadership had issued anti-army statements in the past and their attacks continued till the recent past.
\nDuring the presser, the DG ISPR revealed that an unarmed \u201chigh-speed flying object\u201d was fired from India\u2019s Sirsa area into Pakistan that landed in Punjab province\u2019s Mian Chunnu on Wednesday.
\nHe said that the object destroyed the wall of a building but no casualties on the Pakistani side was reported, condemning the Indian side for its careless approach that had endangered lives on both sides of the border.
\n\u201cWhatever caused this to happen, it is for the Indian to explain… it reflects very poorly on their part and could have resulted in a disaster,\u201d he added.
\nTerming the object a supersonic missile, he said that a detailed inquiry is underway and further details will be provided soon but added that the object was definitely unarmed.
\n\u201cThis [the object] was 100 kilometres inside India but we had picked it up… when its trajectory shifted towards Pakistan, our tactical and technical procedures were put in place… we knew from where it started [its flight] and where it was going to fall… as soon as it fell our forces reached the spot and later Pakistan Air Force took over… we had detected the object in a timely manner,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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