Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, found himself at the centre of a growing online backlash after a video from a recent press briefing appeared to show him winking at a female journalist while responding to a question about jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

A short clip from the briefing, now widely circulated on X (formerly Twitter), shows the journalist questioning the army’s narrative on Imran Khan — often described by military-aligned commentators as a “national security risk” — and asking whether the official stance marked a shift from earlier years.

In his response, Chaudhry added a controversial line in Urdu, “Aur chautha nuqta bhi jor lein, woh zehni mareez bhi hain”

(“Add a fourth point — that he is also mentally ill.”)

As he del

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