PESHAWAR – A spokesman for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas Secretariat on Friday rejected a report circulated by the Online news agency which alleged that NATO was paying Pakistan Army for every container that passed through the Torkhan border checkpost into Afghanistan.
The news agency had claimed that the revelation was made during the session of the National Assembly Committee on SAFRON. “The involvement of security agencies in such activities as reported by a section of the press is unfortunate, fallacious and contradictory to the real state of affairs,” the spokesman said, adding that no such issue was ever raised up during the proceedings of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on SAFRON, which was attended by amongst others; SAFRON minister, members of National Assembly, SAFRON secretary and senior officials of the FATA Secretariat. He termed it is an attempt to malign the reputation of the security forces of Pakistan.
“These are anti-state elements that are out to forge false allegations in order to undermine the invaluable sacrifices rendered by our security forces especially in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he asserted.
