Pakistan military flays BBC over false report

Islamabad: The Pakistani military lashed out at British media BBC for a report on human rights abuse in the country’s northwest tribal area, calling it a pack of lies, local reports said Wednesday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, was quoted as saying that contents of the story “Uncovering Pakistan’s Secret Human Rights Abuses,” published on June 2, carries conjecturing implicating Pakistan Army without any proof, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The BBC report claimed that scores of innocent people were killed in aerial strikes and ground operations of the Pakistani military during its operations against the militants in the northwest tribal district of North Waziristan.
Questioning the credibility of the story, the military said that they received a judgmental questionnaire from the BBC via email, to which they responded by offering a full opportunity and even interaction to know the facts.
However, the media group never responded and did a preconceived, conjectured story.
The statement said that the BBC story is void of the context and understanding of the prevalent environment at that time.
The BBC story lacks any credible and authentic source and merely relied on hearsay, the ISPR said, noting that the only sources interviewed in the story also did not mention any airstrike or operation that left a lot of people killed. (IANS)