Feb 03, 2006
Pakistan defence services' mouthpiece, ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) has said that the Indian media and the Bollywood continued to make mockery of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf despite protests by Islamabad.
ISPR Director-General said that the Indian media and films were tarnishing Pakistan's image at the international forum. "Bollywood movies on Kargil and against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani leaders spoke volumes about the way Pakistan's image was being tarnished in the Indian media," he said.
"Just take four main Pakistani English dailies like Dawn, Daily Times, The News and The Nation and compare them with their Indian counterparts. You will find very little in the Pakistani press against the Indian leadership or anything tarnishing the Indian image. However, if you look at the main Indian press today you will find at least 10 to 15 anti-Pakistan articles," the Dawn quoted Sultan as saying.
He further said that Islamabad was only extending diplomatic support to the "freedom struggle" in Kashmir.
"People fighting in Kashmir are neither jihadis nor terrorists: they are freedom fighters, largely indigenous. Pakistan supported this freedom struggle by diplomatic means," ISPR Director-General Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said while speaking at a seminar - 'Political violence and terrorism in South Asia' - in Islamabad.
He added that there was no direct military threat to Pakistan from India as long as the peace process was going on between the two countries.
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