Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry is addressing a press conference.
He said the purpose of the press conference was to elaborate on the army’s professional activities, including analysing its counterterrorism operations.
“India’s propaganda against Pakistan continues,” he said. He noted that Pakistan had taken United Nations observers to the Line of Control (LoC) several times, while India had not done the same.
The DG ISPR said that India had committed several ceasefire violations along the LoC this year and Pakistan had also taken down six Indian spy quadcopters.
“The contacts between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Baloch [insurgent] organisations and foreign intelligence agencies has been proven.”
Pakistan’s civil and military agencies took great steps against terrorists, he said.
Giving a breakdown of the menace of terrorism during the current year, he said 436 incidents had occurred, in which 293 people were martyred and 523 injured.
During this period, security forces conducted 8,279 intelligence-based operations (IBOs), in which 1,535 terrorists were killed. Around 70 IBOs were being conducted daily, he added.
“There is no no-go area in Pakistan,” he emphasised.
