Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, will hold a press conference at 3 pm today (Friday) in which he is expected to discuss security-related issues, including the rise in terrorist incidents.
The development comes a day after the federal government appointed Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir as Pakistan’s first Chief of Defense Forces (CDF).
The military spokesperson is also expected to discuss counter-terrorism efforts, the situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and other related issues.
Last week, the lieutenant general said that Afghan Taliban troops are confronting Pakistani border forces with unprovoked firing to facilitate the infiltration of terrorists into the country.
“Both countries always protect each other’s borders. On the other side, there is a country whose posts first attack your posts and an exchange begins. And then they have them.” [terrorists] pass through the intermediate gaps,” the top military spokesperson said during an interaction with senior journalists on Friday night.
“If you go to the border of Sindh or Punjab, do you come across divided villages or populations, or are you sitting on the border? Here [Pak-Afghan border]There are 29 tribes that are divided. The population is here and there. How will they control movement on the border itself?” he added.
A day earlier, Pakistan partially reopened the border crossings at Torkham and Chaman, specifically for the transportation of emergency humanitarian aid sent by the United Nations for the people of Afghanistan.
The UN emergency aid also includes food, medicine and school supplies for Afghan children.
A Pakistani official said AFP He said the border would remain closed to all trade and that the partial reopening for aid was “conditional.” “Pakistan has not reopened the border for general trade or immigration with Afghanistan, nor has it restored Afghan transit trade,” the official added.
