ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has nothing to do with the posters urging Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif to launch a coup, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.
?Reference posters with #COAS pic being displayed across various cities; Army or any affiliated organisation have nothing to do with it,? Director General ISPR Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa wrote on his Twitter account.
Meanwhile politicians reacted to the presence of these mysterious posters.
Pakistan People's Party stalwart Aitezaz Ahsan said that there was no threat to democracy and the military neither wants nor it is in a position to launch a coup.Â
He alleged that the government was involved in hanging the banners calling Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif to intervene and launch a military coup, aiming to intimidate and embarrass the opposition.
?There is neither threat to the democracy nor the Army is ready to take over but the government is itself displaying these banners with a purpose to put the opposition under pressure and to scare the opposition that the democracy is in danger,? he said while talking to media persons at the Parliament House on Tuesday.
Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed on Tuesday said the government has no courage to order the removal of banners installed by a so-called political party with the pictures of Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif calling him to intervene and launch a military coup.
?A so-called political party has displayed the banners in Islamabad which are against the Constitution, but the government has not got the courage to order to remove these banners,? he said while talking to media persons here.
He said the hanging of the banners is a challenge to the writ of the government. The opposition leader said questions were also raised on the position of General Raheel. ?I could say with firm belief that General Raheel Sharif did not even know about the politics done through these banners,? he added.
Thousands of banners were displayed on Tuesday in several cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi and Hyderabad seeking the army chief?s intervention.
A full-fledged campaign was also launched on the social media giving the impression that martial law is about to be imposed.
Ali Hashmi, the man who claims to be behind the banner campaign making undemocratic demand from Pakistan Army which not only damages the repute of COAS General Raheel Sharif but also of army as an institution, while talking to The News said that he wanted "those who are actually running the country to come forward and take over the country for real".
"Who is running the foreign policy of the country?" said Ali Hashmi adding: "Whether its foreign policy or natural calamity, it?s the army that comes forward".
Though Ali Hashmi claimed to be independent but tongues are wagging how a single person could hang tens of thousands of banners across Pakistan in just one night without any help from those who could do it.
Hashmi said that he has not received any response from the government or opposition or Pakistan Army regarding his undemocratic demand, which tantamount to high treason.
It is not the first time that Ali Hashmi has done this as just a few months ago when General Raheel Sharif had announced that he will not take any extension and would retire in November this year, he for the first time came out with his banner campaign demanding from General Raheel not to talk of retirement. Regarding his earlier campaign Hashmi said that it was too early for COAS to announce his retirement and that he did not want him to retire.
This time, Mr Hashmi has come forward with a demand which he in fact intended to make in his first banner campaign but could not make, i.e. asking General Raheel to impose Martial Law in the country.
"General Raheel should impose martial law in the country and make a government of technocrats and head it himself," Ali Hashmi said while explaining his recent banner campaign.
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