By Staff reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Wednesday said Ulema had resolved to counter disinformation campaign against Pakistan Army through thick and thin. Speaking at a press conference in this city, Ashrafi, who is also the chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), announced that on Friday, Ulema and Mashaykh from all schools of thought observed “Youm-e-Dua” for the departed souls of Pakistan Army officers who lost their precious lives in the helicopter crash in Balochistan while going above and beyond their call of duty in the flood.
He said they will express solidarity with Pakistan Army and counter the negative propaganda drive being run by some miscreants with malafide intentions against them from Mehrab-o-Mimber. He made it clear that Pakistan Army was redline for all of us and certain elements who were talking to disintegrate Pakistan Army would be no more successful in their nefarious designs come what may.
He said the efforts for creating disintegration in Pakistan Army were not new ones as the anti-state elements were trying their social, political, economical and even religious jargons to meet their purposes since the day one but they had badly failed due to blind trust of the nation on their defense and security forces.
Giving the fall of Libya as a concrete example, Ashrafi claimed that the Libyan dinar had once been more valuable than the US dollar, but that due to divisions between the army and the people, it was now in an unwinnable crisis. He gave the assurance that his Ulema and Mashaykh were supporting their defence and security forces and would respond appropriately to anyone attempting to use whatever means necessary to drive a wedge between the country and the Pakistan Army.
He proposed that there were some non-controversial elements, they should come forward and play their role to ease undue hype, raised in the country. Responding to a question, he said Dr Shabaz Gill had crossed his limits which was totally unjustified, even his party was not standing by his anti-state remarks as Punjab Chief Minister Pervez Elahi had condemned it in the strongest terms.
