No Woman‚ Child In Security Forces’ Custody : Pakistan Army

Islamabad, Feb 23, IRNA – Pakistan army on Saturday categorically rejected outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s allegations about their women and children in the custody of security forces, state media reported. ‘Radio Pakistan’ quoted spokesperson of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) that not a single woman or child is in the custody of security forces. In fact‚ women and children have never been detained. The spokesperson said this baseless accusation by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is mere a propaganda to divert the attention from the real issue of their blatant and dastardly acts of terror across the country. Earlier, security officials had also denied that they killed any TTP member in their custody. Calling the TTP’s allegations baseless, one security official had said it was mere “propaganda to justify their dastardly acts of terror”. The Mohmand Agency chapter of the TTP had claimed that it has killed 23 Frontier Corps (FC) men taken captive earlier to avenge the “killing of Taliban prisoners in the government’s custody”. According to media reports, Umar Khorasani of the TTP Mohmand Agency had claimed in a statement released on February 16 that the 23 FC men had been kidnapped along with seven other officials from the Shongrai check post on June 14, 2010./end