Indian army chief has ‘blood of innocents on hand’: ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army’s spokesman on Friday strongly condemned the irresponsible statements of Indian army chief Bipin Rawat who is seeking to become the Indian Chief of Defence Staff.

The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is a proposed position for the combined head of the Indian army, Indian air force and Indian navy. The creation of the post was announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his independence day speech in August.

Director General Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the Indian army chief’s is repeatedly provoking war through irresponsible statements which threaten regional peace to facilitate the Indian political leadership.

“Indian COAS repeatedly provoking war through irresponsible statements endangering regional peace for electioneering of political masters.

“From fake surgical strike, to date his only success has been to turn Indian Army into a rogue force and getting them killed,” said DG ISPR in statement on social media site Twitter.

Indian Army Chief’s statements coupled with blood of innocents on hand, losses to Indian forces at the hands of Pakistan Armed Forces, heli crashes due to so called tech fault cum fratricide just to become Indian CDS is actually at the cost of professional military ethos.(2of2).

— DG ISPR (@OfficialDGISPR) October 25, 2019

He further said the Indian army chief’s statements are couple with “blood of innocents on hand” just to become the Indian chief of defence staff at the cost of military professionalism.

“Indian Army Chief’s statements coupled with blood of innocents on hand, losses to Indian forces at the hands of Pakistan Armed Forces, heli crashes due to so called tech fault cum fratricide just to become Indian CDS is actually at the cost of professional military ethos,” he added.

The comments come amid escalating violence and tensions across the Line of Control. The Pakistan army had challenged India to share locations of the alleged ‘lauchpads’ the latter claimed to have targeted in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

“Indians have no grounds to support false claim made by their COAS. We will take foreign diplomats & media tomorrow on those given locations. Let all see facts on ground,” Maj General Ghafoor had said.

The Foreign Office and the Pakistan Army held a visit with a group of foreign diplomats to Jura sector along the LoC to witness the targets and the damage caused by Indian shelling in which six people, including a soldier, were martyred, while six others were injured.

India has neither allowed its diplomats based in Islamabad to visit the LoC along with the group nor provided the locations the alleged ‘launch pads’ it had claimed to have destroyed.