{"id":7600,"date":"2022-04-12T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2022-04-12T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:03:56","slug":"pakistan-army-takes-notice-of-smear-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-army-takes-notice-of-smear-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Army takes notice of smear campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army on Tuesday has taken strong notice of a smear campaign being run on social media, media reported, quoting Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Pakistan Army\u2019s public relations wing, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa chaired a meeting of the Formation Commander\u2019s Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Formation Commanders Conference was attended by all Corps Commanders, Staff Officers and Formation Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistan Army spokesman said the participants were briefed on professional matters, national security challenges, and measures to deal with traditional and non-traditional threats.<\/p>\n<p>According to ISPR, the COAS expressed satisfaction over the operational readiness of the formations and commended the corps commanders for the sacrifices made by the officers and men.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Army spokesman, Major General Babar Iftikhar said that the participants had taken stern notice of the propaganda campaign against the Pakistan Army.<\/p>\n<p>Participants said that army has always stood for state institutions and will always protect state institutions without any discrimination, forum participants have expressed complete satisfaction with the military leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)\u00a0had arrested five suspects, including a political activist, for allegedly running an online smear campaign against the country\u2019s armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>These arrests were made as a result of several raids in Lahore, Multan, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi by the cybercrime wing of the federal agency. The suspects have been handed over to the counter-terrorism wing of the FIA. Political activist\u00a0Maqsood Arif was among those arrested.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-begins-investigation-against-ex-pm-imran-for-illegally-selling-gift-received-from-foreign-country.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FIA Begins Investigation Against Ex-PM Imran For Illegally Selling Gift Received From Foreign Country<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army on Tuesday has taken strong notice of a smear campaign being run on social media, media reported, quoting Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). According to Pakistan Army\u2019s public relations wing, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa chaired a meeting of the Formation Commander\u2019s Conference. The Formation Commanders Conference was attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[849,1598,457,1059,296],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-federal-investigation-agency","tag-inter-services-public-relations","tag-ispr","tag-pakistan-army","tag-fia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}