Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry has stated that on a question about the situation in Gwadar and “the absence” of the government’s writ, the DG ISPR told the journalists to go to Balochistan’s port city and see themselves that the writ of the government is there and there is no doubt in it.
“The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) and its so-called leadership is a proxy of terrorists and criminal mafia, whose task is to defame and create propaganda against the law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and agencies working against terrorism, criminal mafias, illegal spectrums, smugglers and extortionists, and to make the development projects in Balochistan controversial.
“The modus operandi for this is gathering a group of people with the help of foreign investment and narrative and provoking the innocent citizens on it, challenging the government’s writ, pelting stones, vandalising and making unreasonable demands. And when the state responds to it, acting like innocents.”
He said that after this, those with a foreign agenda behind them start speaking in their favour in the name of human rights and other constants they have made up.
“All of this is the spectacle that you’ve seen in Gwadar in the past few days,” referring to the BYC protests in the coastal town of Balochistan.
military’s stance on May 9 violent protests remains unchanged that those involved in the riots must be brought to book.
“Army’s stance on [May 9] is clear, which was conveyed in the May 7 [2024] press conference. There has been no change in that nor there will be,” he said while briefing the media on the country’s security situation at Rawalpindi’s General Headquarters (GHQ).
Riots broke out in many parts of the country, especially in the garrison town, with charged mobs vandalising private and public properties including military installations following Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s arrest on May 9.
