RAWALPINDI: In a media briefing today, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor has said that Pakistan was not willing to engage in war with any country including India.
The DG ISPR, however, made it clear that no country would be allowed to take our desire for peace as weakness.
“India is working on a plan and that’s why it staged a drama of surgical strike. Armed forces and the people are ready to respond to any misadventure by India,” the head of military’s media wing said.
Major Gen Ghafoor said that Pakistan was not involved in stoking terrorism in Afghanistan and that it was also taking effective measures to deal with terrorism.
“Over 70,000 Pakistanis have sacrificed their lives since the launch of war against terror in Pakistan. We will continue to render sacrifices until the country is put on the desired level of progress,” he told journalists.
To a question regarding house arrest of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Major Gen Ghafoor said that it was a policy decision of state institutions.
“The state institutions took the decision regarding house arrest of Hafiz Saeed in the national interest, it was a policy decision of institutions,” he said.
Hafiz Saeed was taken into custody at headquarters of the JuD along with his four associates Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niaz.
