Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor has that it has been clarified after the US drone attack that dignified return of Afghan refugees is vital to ensure that remaining terrorists’ don’t morph into refugee camps.
RAWALPINDI, (Pakistan Point News - 25th Jan, 2018 ) : Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor has that it has been clarified after the US drone attack that dignified return of Afghan refugees is vital to ensure that remaining terrorists’ don’t morph into refugee camps. In a statement released on social media on Thursday, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said, “The drone strike on January 24 in Spintal, Hangu district was on individual target who had morphed into Afghan refugees and not any organized terrorists sanctuary which have been eliminated.
Out of total 54 Afghan Refugee camps, complexes in Pakistan, 43 are in K-P with overlap in FATA (complexes in Hangu including where drone struck on Jan 24 shown on map). This validates Pakistan’s stance that left over terrorists easily morph into Afghan refugees’ camps. Thus their early and dignified return to Afghanistan is essential,” the statement read. Pakistan’s brotherly hospitality to peaceful Afghanistan must not be exploited by the terrorists, DG ISPR maintained. The DG only recently categorically denied that there were any Haqqani network sanctuaries inside the country. He reiterated that 43% of Afghanistan was not under the control of the Afghan government.
