No organised terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan: Pakistan DG ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor on Monday asserted that there is no organised terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan.

Briefing the media regarding the recent tensions between India and Pakistan and other security matters, the military spokesman said, “We can say with evidence that now there is no organised terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan.”

“We share intelligence with 70 countries,” he informed, as he lamented that over 81,000 Pakistanis were martyred or injured in the war against terrorism.

“This is the cost we paid for this cooperation,” he said.

The spokesman noted that radicalisation took root in Pakistan due to the impact of the Afghan jihad and the Iranian revolution.

“After 9/11, international powers wanted to pressure Pakistan to devise policies according to their will,” he said.

“Terrorism came to Pakistan when international forces started the operation in Afghanistan. Since 9/11, Pakistan conducted kinetic operations against terrorist organisations.”