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Pakistan Army says no joint patrols taking place with Iran

In April, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had announced that the two countries would form a joint quick-reaction force to combat militant activity on their shared border.

Faran Jeffery by Faran Jeffery
December 9, 2019
in International, intl, Military
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Pakistan Army says no joint patrols taking place with Iran

Director General Inter-Services Public Relations, also known as ISPR and which functions as the PR wing of Pakistani military, Major General Asif Ghafoor, refuted news reports that Pakistani and Iranian security forces had carried out ‘joint patrolling’ along the Iran-Pakistan international border.

According to the tweet made by DG ISPR’s Twitter account on Monday, the news is ‘factually incorrect’ as there is no joint patrolling taking place at Pakistani borders.

Maj Gen Ghafoor clarified that coordinated patrolling is done by security forces at their respective sides of the border.

“There is no joint patrolling anywhere on Pakistani Borders. Patrolling/ operations if required are always on respective sides by respective forces through coordination,” the DG ISPR said in a tweet.

News published by Dawn today titled “Pak-Iran Forces jointly conduct border patrolling” is factually incorrect. There is no joint patrolling anywhere on Pakistani Borders. Patrolling/ operations if required are always on respective sides by respective forces through coordination. pic.twitter.com/9MnC0lbKMT

— DG ISPR (@OfficialDGISPR) December 9, 2019

Deputy Commissioner Chagai Fateh Khan Khajjak reiterated the same, saying border security forces do not hold joint patrols and that Pakistani and Iranian forces patrol their respective sides of the border.  

However, DG ISPR’s tweet which singles out the Dawn newspaper for the incorrect report was harshly criticized by Pakistani journalists and civil society activists, who rightly pointed out that the same story was also reported by the state-run Radio Pakistan, as well as Iran’s IRNA news agency.

#Iran-Pakistan conduct joint border patrolling https://t.co/UnGpmjcype pic.twitter.com/ze2vsyJ8i5

— IRNA News Agency (@IrnaEnglish) December 9, 2019
Screenshot from Radio Pakistan website. The story was later deleted.

Radio Pakistan has apparently deleted the Pakistan-Iran "joint border patrolling" story.

They posted a new news story without telling its readers that it deleted the story after ISPR DG's tweet. https://t.co/xUMa9S51Fj

— Roohan Ahmed (@Roohan2Ahmed) December 9, 2019

Editor of Dawn newspaper also tweeted a clarification and admitted the error, while pointing out that the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan was the source of the story.

The point is noted. The confusion was caused by the official news agency APP, as the picture caption said ‘joint patrolling’. Radio Pak also tweeted the same. But we will be carrying out correction in light of your statement. https://t.co/GwX5AX1VLf

— Zaffar Abbas (@abbasz55) December 9, 2019

This is not the first time the Dawn newspaper has received push back directly or indirectly from Pakistan’s state institutions. Earlier this month, the office of Dawn in the capital of Islamabad was besieged twice by a mob of protesters who chanted slogans in favor of Pakistani military and the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan and against Dawn newspaper and its staff after Dawn mentioned the Pakistani origin of Usman Khan, the terrorist who carried out a stabbing attack in London on Nov 29, in its report. The mob also burned copies of the Dawn newspaper as well as an effigy of the newspaper’s chief executive. While the mob’s act was denounced by some Pakistani politicians, some journalists and civil society activists publicly and privately alleged that some of Pakistan’s state institutions instigated the protests outside Dawn’s Islamabad office.

It is worth noting that the London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan was later buried by his family in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Border security has long been a major cause of distrust in Pakistan-Iran relations. 

In April, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had announced that the two countries would form a joint quick-reaction force to combat militant activity on their shared border.

On Nov. 18, Pakistani military chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Tehran for security talks with Iran’s political leadership and military leadership.

In May this year, Pakistan began the fencing of certain areas along the 950-kilometer border it shares with Iran.

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Faran Jeffery

Faran Jeffery

Faran Jeffery is the Deputy Director at the UK-based counter-terrorism organisation ITCT (Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism) and a contributor at Porter Medium. He is a South Asia-based analyst on terrorism, extremism, military conflicts and other security-related matters. He is an expert on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), militancy and terrorist propaganda. He also dedicatedly follows geopolitics and international current affairs.

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