Lt Gen Chaudhry briefs media on key security-related matters; blames Imran Khan (without naming him) and his party for unrest in the KP province; The general highlighted that at least 917 terrorists were killed in over 1,000 intelligence-based operations in 2025 so far
Shamim Shahid
PESHAWAR: Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry is addressing a press conference at Corps Headquarters in Peshawar.
“In 2014 after the incident of Army public school tragedy, the government of the that time and the military began rooting out the menace of terrorism from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” said the DG ISPR.
Later on, the ISPR chief said that terrorists and their facilitators were given space in KP under the “well thought out plot”.
The governance and public welfare were deliberately affected, Lt Gen Chaudhry said.
Lt Gen Chaudhry noted that while the surge in terrorism has been witnessed during recent years, the swift and decisive response of the Pakistan Army, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies is evident to all.
The general highlighted that at least 917 terrorists were killed in over 1,000 intelligence-based operations in 2025 so far, adding that 132 civilians and 311 Pakistan Army soldiers were among 516 martyred during the period.
Speaking on the repatriation of Afghan refugees, the military’s spokesperson said that Pakistan has hosted “Afghan brothers” for decades, but now the state decided to send them back.
“Unfortunately, politics is being done on this issue, and a narrative is being created around it.”
“A fake and fabricated narrative is being built against the ongoing operations against terrorism and martyrs of Pakistan Army and police are being ridiculed,” he noted, while describing it as a “nexus between political and criminal elements”.
“A person or group that is facilitating Fitna al-Khawarij has three choices — one is to hand over these terrorists to the state, second is to join hands with state institutions in anti-terror operations.”
“If both of these options do not work, then they [the facilitators] should be ready for action by the state,” he added.
“This status quo will not work anymore.”
Responding to a question on the purported airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Kabul, the DG ISPR neither admitted or rejected targeting Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Noor Wali Mehsud.
“We are doing and we will continue to do whatever is necessary for the protection our civilians’ lives and properties as well as territorial integrity of Pakistan,” he replied.
