Afghan claim of targeting drug rehab centre ridiculous: DG ISPR
Claims Pakistan hit ammo storage site
RAWALPINDI: Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Wednesday rubbished what he said was the “ridiculous” claim of Pakistan targeting a drug rehabilitation centre in Afghanistan, saying that the military had targeted an ammunition storage depot.
On Tuesday, the Taliban regime’s deputy spokesperson HamdullahFitrat claimed in a post on X that an airstrike had hit the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital, killing up to 400 people in the Afghan capital overnight.
Addressing the matter today while speaking in an interview on private television programme ‘Capital Talk’, the military spokesperson said: “They’re saying that there was some drug rehabilitation centre there. Someone ask them why have you made a drug rehab centre in the middle of an ammunition storage. Which hospital in the world is there that is made beside an ammo storage where you have kept missiles and ammunition. Why was it made? because it was never there.”
He questioned who could make such a structure.
The DG ISPR said Ghazab Lil Haq was not a standalone operation but part of Pakistan’s ongoing war against terrorism, adding that the country was fighting a war imposed by terrorists and their sponsors.
“Every child in Pakistan knows that India is behind this terrorism, using Afghanistan as its base of operations. It is Indian-sponsored, funded terrorism whose base of operations is Afghanistan,” the DG ISPR said.
He said that in every terrorism-related incident in Pakistan, Afghanistan was used as the base of operations.
Providing details of incidents in which terrorists carried out attacks on Pakistan from Afghanistan, he said that on the blessed day of Friday, an attack was carried out in Tarlai in which worshippers were martyred, adding that the attacker had come from Afghanistan where he had received training and preparation.
He added that attacks were carried out in Wana and Bannu, targeting mosques, police and civilians, and said all attackers were coming from Afghanistan. Questioning where the leaders of these terrorists were, he said they were being sheltered in Afghanistan. Staff Report
