ISPR warns of severe consequences concerning Prime Minister’s statement

ISPR warns of severe consequences concerning Prime Minister’s statement

The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) has recently posted a statement on its official website that called the comments made by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raze Gilani about the Chief of Army Staff General (COAS) Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
as well as the Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Ahmed Shuja Pasha as very serious.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan had given an interview to a Chinese online newspaper by the name of
The People’s Daily Online and had referred to the COAS as well as the DGISI of Pakistan. This was done during the time Kayani was on an official visit to China.

According to the ISPR website, the comments of the Prime Minister of Pakistan can have
“very serious ramifications with potentially grievous consequences for the country.”

The website also added the following statements: “The Honourable Prime Minister inter alia termed the responses given by COAS and DG ISI in the alleged Memo Case to the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan as unconstitutional and illegal.”

The statement given by the Prime Minister of Pakistan was in response to the developments made in the memo gate case that is ongoing in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The case is investigating the former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Hussain
Haqqani, against whom there are allegations that he had a hand in delivering the message to the US to rein in the military of Pakistan on the request of the President of the country, Asif Ali Zardari. The allegation was made by an American based Pakistani
businessman according to whom the memo requesting the help of the US to deal with the military of Pakistan was asked to be forwarded by Haqqani.

Since the time that the memo gate issue came to light, there has been a deepening divide between the military of the country and the civil government. According to the ISPR statement that is present on the website, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza
Gilani has in fact held both the COAS as well as the DGISI responsible for being in the direct violation of the country. As a result, the matter will not be taken lightly.

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Posted by Rabiya Maqbool on Jan 11 2012. Filed under Latest News, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry