Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry will address a press conference at 15 today (Friday), where he is expected to discuss security-related issues, including 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 (CDF).
The military spokesman is also expected to discuss counter-terrorism, the situation at the Pak-Afghan border and other related issues.
Last week, the lieutenant general said that the Afghan Taliban troops are engaging Pakistan’s border forces with unprovoked firing to facilitate the infiltration of terrorists into the country.
“Borders are always mutually guarded by both countries. On the other side there is a country whose posts first engage your posts through fire and an exchange begins. And then they have them [terrorists] go from the gaps in between,” said the top military spokesperson during an interaction with senior journalists last Friday evening.
“If you go to the border of Sindh or Punjab, do you get shared villages or populations, or are you sitting on the border? Here [Pak-Afghan border]there are 29 tribes which are divided. The population is here and there. How will you control the movement on the same border?” he added.
A day earlier, Pakistan partially reopened border crossings at Torkham and Chaman, specifically for the transport of humanitarian aid sent by the United Nations to the people of Afghanistan.
The UN’s emergency aid also includes food, medicine and school supplies for Afghan children.
A Pakistani official said AFP said the border would remain closed to all trade and that the partial reopening for aid was “conditional”. “Pakistan has not reopened the border to general trade or immigration with Afghanistan, nor has it restored Afghan transit trade,” the official added.
