Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesperson Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa confirmed the suspension of the six army officers by the army chief over corruption.
Bajwa said that the officers were dismissed, punished and sent home in a single related case.
He added that the action was taken after months of investigation.
Bajwa said that such actions within the army are not made public anywhere in the world as a reply to a question about the army’s silence and the absence of an official version.
“I did not deny the news at that time but as I told you, it is not the institutional policy to do so. A press release was issued in the National Logistics Cell (NLC) scam case because NLC was a public institution,” Bajwa told the show host.
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The ISPR spokesman maintained the army already has a branch dedicated to investigating such activities and present its reports to COAS, who takes the required action.
General Raheel Sharif has strengthened this unit of army and is aggressively pursuing the anti-corruption drive, he added
Bajwa, however categorically denied ‘rumours’ about an inquiry against two retired lieutenant generals General Sajjad Ghani and General Naveed Zaman
Bajwa also added that the 11 death sentences announced a day earlier have taken the total number of decided cases to 88 and expressed hope that all pending cases will be decided by January 2017, the end limit of military courts.
He added that at least 207 cases are pending in military courts, 88 have been decided and some cases are in the pipeline, which will be forwarded to the courts after apex committee and ministry of interior’s approval.
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