Pak Army Removes Spokesperson Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor for 'Embarrassing' Twitter Post

New Delhi, January 17, 2020:

Pakistan Army has removed spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor following the latter’s “embarrassing” Twitter posts and replaced Major General Babar Iftikhar.

According to reports, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa was too distressed by the mockery that the Pakistan military was drawing due to General Ghafoor’s unfriendly social media engagements. That is the reason he decided to remove him from the post of Director-General, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

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Embarrassed by his frequent Twitter spats and blunders by its spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor, the Pakistan Army on Thursday took the drastic step of removing him from the position of Spokesperson.

General Asif Ghafoor is currently appointed as GOC of 40 Division Okara in Pakistan, reports said. The development has been reported after Ghafoor was trolled for posting a doctored video of war hero and retired Indian Air Force Air Marshal Denzil Keelor. Later, Ghafoor admitted that the Keelor clip was doctored.

Also in another post, Ghafoor exchanged heated comments with a Pakistani journalist Sana Bucha on Twitter. He later deleted his tweet, "Should an already butchered be butchered again?" which drew a lot of flak from the journalistic community. Many accused Ghafoor of often tweeting in an inebriated state.

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