Funeral prayers were offered on Monday for two security guards of Gwadar’s Pearl Continental (PC) hotel, martyred in a terrorist attack. The last rites of martyrs, Bilal Lashari and Zahoor Lashari, were attended by Senior Superintendents Police (SSP) of Badin and Tando Muhammad Khan as well as thousands of people in their hometowns. The two […]
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Army shares pain of missing persons’ families: DG ISPR
Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor on Friday said they share the pain of the families of the missing persons and added that they are in the process of tracing them. “Our hearts beat with families of every missing person. We share their pain and we are with them in the […]
Troops capable of defeating threats ‘irrespective of the front’: COAS
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the Pakistan Army is fully capable of defeating all threats ‘irrespective of the front’, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). During his visit to the Northern Light Infantryman (NLI) Battalion along the Line of Control (LOC) on Saturday, […]
Terrorists attacking Pakistan are our enemies: US
Declaring terrorists attacking Pakistan as its enemies, the United States on Tuesday said it does not have the ‘evidence’ suggesting that India is using the Afghan soil to perpetrate terrorism in Pakistan, and that it had no information regarding the Pakistan Army’s latest allegations that Afghan and Indian secret agencies were funding the Pashtun Tahafuz […]
Going for the PTM
The Monday press conference by Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, the Inter-Services Public Relations director general, covered a lot of ground and addressed many questions. It also left behind some fresh questions. The most important concerns, according to the military spokesman are foreign funding for the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement and the idiom and style of the […]
Indian legislator Raja Singh copies ISPR’s anthem
Raja Singh, a member of the Legislative Assembly in the southern Indian state of Telangana would release a song on Rama Navami that is similar to ISPR song released on Pakistan Day this year. Rama Navami is a Hindu religious event in India which is being celebrated on April 14 every year. In tweet Raja […]
Army promotes four major generals to lieutenant general
Four major generals have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of Pakistan Army, said in a press release on Friday. Those promoted are Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, Major General Nauman Mahmood, Major General Azhar Abbas and Major General Faiz Hameed. Lieutenant General Sahir Shamshad Mirza […]
ISPR promotes four major generals to the ranks of lieutenant major
The military media wing of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced the promotion of four major generals to the rank of lieutenant general on Friday. According to a document given out by the ISPR, the officers promoted are: Lieutenant General Nauman Mahmood s currently working as the director general analysis of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) […]
The information conundrum
On 6 April, a reporter posted on Twitter that the former Finance Minister of Pakistan, Miftah Ismail “tried to escape Pakistan” and that he was “stopped at Karachi airport” after his name had been “recommended to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL)”.The tweet was retweeted over a thousand times and “liked” over 4000 […]
DG-ISPR Ghafoor denies fresh Indian claim IAF downed Pakistan jet
ISLAMABAD: On Monday, DG-ISPR Gen. Asif Ghafoorrejected India’s new claims that it gunned down another Pakistani jet. He asserted that no matter how many times a false claim is repeated, it fails to become truth. He said that India only made false claims unable to support them with evidence. The director general of ISPR, the […]