Ghafoor will be replaced by Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, who will take charge of the Pakistani military’s media wing on Feb 1. With regard to the recent comments made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi where he claimed that Indian forces were now capable of making Pakistan “bite the dust” in less than 10 days, Ghafoor said that the Pakistan Army “will always surprise the Indian armed forces”. “How can an army which could not defeat 8 million Kashmiris in the past 71 years, defeat 207 million Pakistanis?” he asked. Maj Gen Ghafoor said there was “no victory in war; humanity always loses”. Praising Gen Bajwa’s “historic measures” he said that the army chief had made “important and difficult decisions” for peace in the country.

Source: Pakistan Today January 30, 2020 16:07 UTC