Warning to ISPR: Who is pulling Ahsan Iqbal’s strings?

by Tauqeer Abbas
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Through a statement circulated by his public relations officer, Interior Minister Asan Iqbal on Friday said that the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, should refrain from commenting on the country’s economic situation..

 

 

The response seems to have been directed at an interview the military’s spokesman gave to a private TV channel the day earlier, in which he had said that: “If the economy is not bad, it is not doing so well either.”

 

 

The remarks followed an address by army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, given to leaders of Karachi’s business community earlier this week, in which he had stressed that economic stability was tied deeply to Pakistan’s security concerns.

 

 

Gen Bajwa had said that Pakistan needs to expand its tax base, bring in financial discipline and ensure continuity of economic policies to be able to break the begging bowl, military’s media wing had reported.

 

 

Now the question is that should army refrain from issuing such statements? Do army has nothing do with economy? Is it not a subject of Armed forces? The answer is very simple.

 

Army cannot refrain from commenting on Economic condition because it is poverty that is giving rise to terrorism and ultimately the onus falls on the shoulders of forces. Infact corruption, malpractices and economic differences have played a major role in radicalization of people, therefore army wants a stable economy.

 

 

Meanwhile the questions is that who is pulling Ahsan Iqbal’s strings to choose a path of confrontation. After returning from US, his tone towards military establishment have become more harder which shows that US is patting on PML-N leaders to malign military and try to put them under civilian rule. But it is quite dangerous because military could never accept civilian supremacy due to their doubtful patriotism.

pk.shafaqna.com

 

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