Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has come down hard on the anti-army ‘campaigners’, 24NewsHD TV channel reported Tuesday.
“The army is our pride and any kind of propaganda against it can only be done by anti-state country’s enemies,” the Punjab chief minister said.
“The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is behind the propaganda and its media cell is working on it. “We are with the forces of Pakistan. No one will be let achieve political goals.
A couple of days ago, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that the Pakistan Army helped and served the nation in every calamity, trouble, and difficult time, adding that the propaganda campaign against the institution is intolerable.
In a statement, he said that the army played an important role in the country and made sacrifices for restoring law and order and ending terrorism.
He added that the entire nation was equally involved in the grief and sorrow of the families of the martyrs of Lasbela.
“Politicians should ignore expediency and express full solidarity with the army,” the PML-Q chief said.
He said that everything can be tolerated but the propaganda campaign against the army is unacceptable and intolerable.