Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Thursday reiterated that the Pakistan Armed Forces are fully prepared and will defend the country\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty at all costs.
\n\u201cWe will do it, come what may,\u201d the DG ISPR vowed while addressing a press conference alongside Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) Rear Admiral Shafaat Ali and Deputy Chief of Air Staff (Projects) Air Vice Marshal Tariq Ghazi on the eve of the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq.
\nHe said that, by the grace of Allah, Pakistan\u2019s Armed Forces fulfilled the aspirations of the nation by completely defeating an enemy five times larger in a multi-domain war. \u201cThe Pakistan Armed Forces defeated the enemy in line with the vision of the country\u2019s political and military leadership,\u201d he said.
\nHe said that every child in Pakistan knows what happened during Marka-e-Haq. \u201cEven children in India know what Pakistan did,\u201d he added.
\nThe DG ISPR said that there were 10 strategic consequences of Marka-e-Haq, the first of which was that the Indian narrative portraying Pakistan as a source of terrorism now stood buried. India had consistently attempted to link terrorism with Pakistan without any evidence, he said.
\nHe said that the FIR related to the Pahalgam incident was registered just 10 minutes after the occurrence of the incident. Despite the lapse of one year, India had failed to provide answers to Pakistan\u2019s queries regarding the Pahalgam incident, he added.
\nHe said India had repeatedly staged dramas alleging that Pakistan perpetrated terrorism in India, but now India\u2019s narrative of accusing Pakistan of terrorism had been buried forever.
\nLt Gen Ahmed Sharif said that India itself was the biggest sponsor of terrorism and had attempted to project itself as a net security provider. Pakistan and its leadership have emerged as the biggest ambassadors of security in the region, he added.
\nHe said Indian politicians appeared more like warmongers. Some Indian politicians raise slogans of \u201cAkhand Bharat\u201d and speak in threatening language, he said.
\nThe DG ISPR said it was a global acknowledgement of India\u2019s efforts to externalize its internal problems and internalize its external issues while using terrorism as a state tool.
\nHe said India has numerous internal problems and has failed to resolve them. India presents its internal problems as external issues and raises the issue of terrorism whenever it cannot address its own failures.
\nHe went on to say that Kashmir is not India\u2019s internal matter, but an internationally recognized dispute. India commits terrorism within its own country and then accuses others, he added.
\nHe said that after Marka-e-Haq, the world recognized how India operated. Indian authorities had started shutting down Pakistani media during Marka-e-Haq, and this practice was still continuing, he said.
\nLt Gen Ahmed Sharif said that warfare was no longer limited to borders; rather, it is fought on land, at sea, in the air, in cyberspace and in the cognitive domain. Pakistan\u2019s Armed Forces were prepared to confront India during Marka-e-Haq across all these domains, he said.
\nHe said Indian media provided considerable entertainment to the Indian public. Referring to claims beginning from the \u201cport of Lahore,\u201d he said the Pakistan Navy was still observing how such claims had been made. He urged Indian media to show courage and speak the truth.
\nHe said there was no space for war between two nuclear neighbours. \u201cAnyone who thinks there is space for war between two nuclear neighbours is crazy. That is madness. Only a madman can think that way. If you want to do it, then there should be no doubt about our resolve,\u201d he said.
\nHe said that the last, but most important, consequence was the unshakeable synergy between the people, the government and the armed forces, which he described as the \u201cBunyanum Marsoos effect.\u201d
\nPresenting the counterterrorism efforts of the Pakistan Armed Forces after Marka-e-Haq, the DG ISPR said that India was given a \u201clesson of their life,\u201d after which it reverted to its default option of using terrorist proxies.
\nHe said that in October, Pakistan struck terrorist support infrastructure in Afghanistan, following which the number of terrorist incidents witnessed a sharp decline.
\nTerrorism in Pakistan was being orchestrated by India, while Afghanistan was being used as a base of operations, he said.
\nHe recalled that during a press conference on May 11, 2025, he had stated that Pakistan\u2019s military capability demonstrated during Marka-e-Haq represented only 10 per cent of the armed forces\u2019 full potential. \u201cWe are prepared; if anyone wishes to test us, they are more than welcome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Thursday reiterated that the Pakistan Armed Forces are fully prepared and will defend the country\u2019s territorial integrity and sovereignty at all costs. \u201cWe will do it, come what may,\u201d the DG ISPR vowed while addressing a press conference alongside Deputy Chief of Naval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-545126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n