The Pakistan Army has denied that its chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had hinted that the country was mortgaged to the US.
“The entire statement is fabricated with malicious intent. General
Kayani never said that Pakistan had mortgaged itself to the US,”
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director, Major General Athar
Abbas said.
The New York Times in a report had claimed that General Kayani had hinted that the country had mortgaged itself to the US.
“In making the analogy to Pakistan as a mortgaged house, Gen Kayani
said that if a person gave his house against a loan and was unable to
pay back the loan, the mortgage holder would intervene,” the report
said.
“We are helpless… Can we fight America?” the report further said.
There have been growing reports in the US casting the military in a
negative light by questioning its sincerity in the fight against
militancy. (ANI)
