Rawalpindi: Director General (DG) Inter-Service Public Relations Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry will hold an important presser this afternoon.
Yesterday, Director General ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry has said that India has been targeting citizens cowardly while every drop of blood of our martyrs in latest Indian aggression will be accounted for.
Holding a joint presser by Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Director General ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry in Islamabad this evening.
The DG ISPR said that Indian claimed of Pakistan attack on 15 locations in India is ridiculous.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that 29 Indian drones have been destroyed while he urged India to stop propaganda.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that Indian allegation of attack on Amratsar is false adding India targeted Rawalpindi cricket stadium.
He said that the nation should rest assured Pakistan army forces are completely prepared against any aggression and we will give befitting reponse.
The DPM said that Pakistan being a responsible state has so far exercised strategic restraint, acted with maturity and limited its response strictly to self defence, in accordance with the international law and the UN Charter.
Ishaq Dar said India today launched a highly provocative and dangerously escalated attack, firing four projectiles targeting Pakistani territory.
Giving details, he said three projectiles were immediately dropped at Amritsar while the fourth that entered Pak airspace was neutralized by Pakistan’s Air defence System and its debris fell in Dinga town inside Pakistan.
He emphasized that the deep-rooted and centuries old cultural affinity between Pakistan and the Sikhs of the Indian Punjab is well known along with the long history of communal persecution of both at the hands of extremist Hindutva majority.
He added that Pakistan rejects any intention or action that may endanger civilian population in Indian Punjab.
Ishaq Dar said this Indian act appears to be a design to falsely implicate Pakistan for targeting Indian civilians and incite anti-Pakistan sentiments among the Punjabi Sikh population to conveniently externalize the rising communal tensions within India.
He said Pakistan deeply sympathizes with the Indian Sikh population as their lives were in danger by India’s malicious use of projectiles to achieve sinister political ends.
The Deputy Prime Minister said Pakistan remains firmly committed to safeguard innocent lives and regional harmony unlike India’s divisive policies.
Providing details on the Indian drone strikes, Ishaq Dar said several armed Indian drones violated Pakistani airspace by crossing the international border at multiple locations, with the apparent aim of targeting civilians and military installations.
He said that one civilian was martyred, while four armed personnel sustained injuries in the attacks. He also revealed that one of these drones struck the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, the venue of the ongoing PSL in deliberate attempt to target both domestic and foreign cricket players.
However, Ishaq Dar assured that all these drones have been successfully neutralized.
Briefing the media on the latest act of Indian aggression, ISPR Director General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Pakistan has successfully neutralized 29 drones so far. He assured that any airborne object approaching Pakistan is closely monitored and will be taken down accordingly.
He said India should refrain from creating war hysteria for domestic political purposes. He also condemned the targeting of religious sites, revealing that one of the drones was directed toward Nankana Sahib, a holy place for Sikhs, a move he described as abhorrent and unacceptable.
He further assured that Pakistan will respond at a time and place of its choosing, emphasizing that the world will witness Pakistan’s retaliation.
He said the armed forces of Pakistan are on the highest level of alert.
During the briefing, the debris of neutralized Indian drones was displayed for the media.
