LAHORE    -   Reacting to 
the criticism 
from some 
p o l i t i c i a n s 
about the DG ISI’s presser last week, 
President Pakistan Muslim 
League (PML) Ch Shujat Hussain Tuesday said it was being misconstrued with purpose as there was nothing 
objectionable in it. In a statement, he said that an impression was being created that 
this presser should have been 
done by someone else instead of the DG ISI. “Given the 
points raised by the DG ISI, 
these issues should have been 
discussed only by the officer 
of the stature of the DG ISI”, he 
said, adding that this was not 
the job of any spokesperson. 
Shujat said that the spy agency’s head had revealed certain facts which could not be 
denied by anybody. “If a politician or any Pakistani gives 
a false coloring to the points 
highlighted during the presser, it would be against the national interest and provide a 
justification to anti-state elements within and outside the 
country to exploit it”, he maintained. The PML president 
said that DG ISI had rightly 
stated that it was a democratic right of the PTI chief Imran 
Khan to take his long march 
to Islamabad, but it should 
not cause anarchy or discard 
in the country thereby allowing the foreign or internal enemy to take benefit of it. Shujat lamented that everybody 
had his own interpretation 
of the word, “traitor” which 
needs to be defined to specify who the traitor is, who is 
being called a traitor and who 
is the one accusing someone of being a traitor. Talking 
about the civil-military contacts, Shujat said that it was 
customary that meetings between low and high ranked 
officers of the civil and military institutions including 
members of the provincial 
and national assemblies do 
take place from time to time 
on different occasions.