I am Major General Babar Iftikhar. I am the one who succeeded Major General Asif Ghafoor as Pakistani military’s spokesman. I am no 16th-century Zahiruddin Muhammad Babar. But if names mean anything to you, then you must know my name stands for tiger or the ‘brave’. Apt for the current times. If Zahiruddin Babar or Babur could win the battle of Panipat then I will win Pakistanis the war against the coronavirus, if nothing else.
This is the first time I am writing to you in person. Don’t freak out. I’m wearing my face-mask and maintaining physical distance. You might think what took me so long to connect with you all, well, with my predecessor Asif Ghafoor’s stormy relationship with you, keeping quiet looked like a really good option. You all deserved the break, while I figured out what was it that I was chosen for.
Man of action
When people say nothing good has come of the year 2020, it breaks my heart. Don’t they remember I came in their lives only in this mubarik year. Am I so unforgettable?
Who am I, even I don’t know. But I am nothing like the last one. I don’t use a smartphone, I don’t even have a personal Twitter account. People expect me to troll enemies of Pakistan, though that is not my job.
My style is rather traditional and subdued. I keep my cards close to my chest and I don’t believe in dying my grey hair. My keeping the greys, like Pakistan staying put on FATF’s grey-list, has converted many ‘Ghafoora’ haters into my lovers. That’s no mean achievement.
Some have called me an introvert, but that’s not so true. It will take time for you to understand that I will only blow the trumpet of my boss and not mine. I don’t believe in reaction. I am a man of action.
Also read: Boss Bajwa got extension, I didn’t. But don’t worry Pakistani dears, I will be Gen Twitter
Fourth-most intelligent nation
My first action was to announce a countrywide lockdown, when Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was incapacitated by common sense, which as you know, isn’t that uncommon. I am Pakistan’s corona soldier.
These are unprecedented times. And unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. Why else do you think the armed forces is making hand sanitisers? It is good for business, of course, but then one has to oversee hundreds of our military’s businesses. How else you think our country is going to run?
While the scientists of the world are looking for a cure to Covid-19, our scientists are making face-masks. Only that will help us get rid of the fake ‘Made in China’ underwear masks. World has its problems, we have ours.
We have to fight an enemy named coronavirus whose ideology is unknown. This virus is way more dangerous than the killers of Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl, that’s why we decided to set them free. A decision that backfired. For years, no one even mentioned terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh. I bet no one even knew he was still alive, but then suddenly the entire world woke up. Now, we Pakistanis weren’t crowned “fourth-most intelligent nation” in the world for nothing.
We continue to fight the fifth-generation hybrid warfare.
Also read: Pakistani doctors need PPE to fight Covid-19, PM Imran Khan puts paper tigers on the job
Triumph and triumph
Last February, India wanted to surprise us with Balakot strikes, in return, we surprised India by celebrating the surprise they couldn’t surprise us with. That’s a lot of surprises in one lifetime. It is now a story for our future Pakistan Studies generations. Dushman ne raat ke andhere mein chhup karhum par vaar kiya, we have practiced that line since 1965. At least in 2020 dushman can WhatsApp and then attack.
27 February 2019 is a day of triumph, a day of being proud, don’t ask why. We destroyed two Indian fighter planes and caught one soldier. Initially, there were two, then there was one, and then we were left with none. The entire country celebrated with a Rahat Fateh Ali Khan concert on the first anniversary of the great bravery of Abhinandan Varthaman descending from nowhere into Pakistan. Nothing that India does will ever make us forget that and we will celebrate each year.
People have judged me for rooting for Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League, a team that loses each time in the league. So much so that fans worry that it might one day lose its name as well. I’ll still take credit on behalf of my boss for bringing cricket back in Pakistan and eliminating terrorism. Don’t doubt that ever.
As chief of public relations and a soldier against coronavirus, it is my duty to inform you that times have changed. Due to the economic crunch, we’ve had to lay off so many of our hired trolls. But that doesn’t mean that the field has been left open. Some of our trolls still work from home for we want them to stay safe. That doesn’t necessarily mean you all will be safe. I might not be watching you in person but remember #AllahDekhRahaHai.
This is part of an occasional, irreverent take on Pakistani issues by General Twitter. The real name of the authors will not be disclosed because they don’t want to be taken too seriously. Views are personal.
How much money print got to publish pic of 16th halala child of Babar ?
Why does this news agency keeps trying to glorify Pakistan?
India is running on cow mute drink cow mute and that’s all
Forget Hindu habbit, rather look at izlam lives on inhuman shariat which forces its women to convert for marrying a non-muzlim.
U deserve chinese underwear ,nothing else.
Pakistan zinzabad. Pakistan made me so welcome thank you
Hooray, Chor-Daaku ka zindabad, cousin brothers.
Thou I don’t believe in authenticity of this article about Major General but I loved the comments of Indians. It’s like their asses are burning and putting comments are working as Fire extinguishers.
Pakistan zindabaad.
27 Feb, and Abhinandan ko ham kabhi nahi bhool skty mery Randian dosto. Or ap b nhi bhool skty mujy yaqeen ha?????
I don beleive a newspaper wd publish such rubbish and nonsense. It shows the standard of print media in india…really sorry for its viewers??
Munna !!!! needle is changed only, syringe is the same .. go chew on that !!!!
For INDIANS!……Go Corona Go…Go Corona Go…..Thats what u people are capable of. I dont think there is anything else to comment on. ?
Was it a rumour that Thousands died in papistan in Covid-19 ?????
Media is voice of intellectuals… n this is the voice of Indian intellectual who took this topic… Maj General Babar came to your sister in person to say all this… pure lies… Baseless propaganda.. n hatred.. i must advise the writer to grow… or keep being biased n remain a shit
Print is relevant till india and pakistan are enemies…..
Shameful anti national group
China know the Pakistanis. They are worth only to
be wrapped in used old undergarments !
Porkistan?Fourth most Intelligent?howlarious ridiculous piece….had me in splits….9hhh in times of coronavirus some comic relief….
To name your self pushkin does not mean your are a pushkin or react your brain like a pushkin, pork in your blood which goes in your brain and make you feel ashamed, don’t forget Soviet era,super power now bulshit, only intelligent people able to do this,minded
First of all the major general talks of being the fourth intelligent nation! It seems he misread and skipped the word fourth most “perverted intelligent nation”
Coming to urine drinking please check your own prophets recommendation of drinking camel urine! You can click camel urine drinking in islam/prophet times or on u tube videos of arabs drinking camel urine even today are available Sooo ignorantWhile the arabs do it even today and are rich because they follow the peophet you duplicates dont follow
and have become a bhikari
nation?
Coming to your army remember 93000 of your troops had surrendered with their pants down
and shamelessly continued in service along your shameless terrorist nation!
Now it’s going to be “PAANCH TUKDA PAKISTAN” very soon!
JAI HIND ???
Keep dreaming, but remember Abhinandan
Sure, we do remember F-16 hunter by 50 year old MIG.
Right u r Mr.Kumar.?
Your favourite leaders are suggesting to drink human urine, cow dunk, and what not. India is then permitting all except minority right. Pakistan is dull headed but India is notorious tyrant.
India has the most no of rape cases in a year
What can one say about these
Pea brains.if these Rss hindutava had another brain cell that will die of loneliness..the country that has an ex chaiy wala.as prime minister what can you say to the rest.empty vessel makes the most noise
That was a funny article. You didnt even get that? Seriously, it made me laugh reading your comments. You took so much pain writing it. ?
Respected Brother. Google is not Quran,
If you don’t have knowledge of any relegion please don’t discuss about it.
It might hurt sentiment of people.
With due respect please stop involving relegion in everything. We should respect
Every religion. Brother please pray to God for forgiveness of all man kind. Our eyes are not still open even after seeing all this what is going around the world. We still keep fighting. Wakeup pray for forgiveness brother. All Gods are same
And we do respect all.
God bless you and your family stay safe.
May God bless all Humen Beings and give us forgiveness.
Non sense at the best ?
Never seen such a stupid and disgusting article!
Jo garajte hain woh baraste nahi hai. Apnauh mian Mithu.
In English those who only shouts do not get into action. Self advertisement
Ha ha ha ha. Very pity… Pakistan has such nonsense on such key positions who speaks like common street man
Pagal general babar didn’t write this article. It is in Indian print
this is such a lowest and cheapest form of writing. i actually and really feel for the writer. poor guy had so much insecurities in his life that he has taken all his anger out here. rough dad ; unbalanced mom ; strange siblings ; all this turned this writer into a child like personality whose brain has frozen.
Stop preaching and show some action against India otherwise shut the fuk up
No doubt Pak has won information war against India.
The man who has written this is no doubt a genius and has an IQ of 200 but look where has he wasted his talent.. come on dude get a new job or just join ISRO.. no no dont do that, but write an article so your people stop worshipping cows and drinking their urine as vaccine for the corona virus..
will talk about the toilets after that
Mohammed Awais, Dear Kafir, why Hindu would stop worship cow ???? Where it harms you ? Any reason for your foolish statement ? Rather you people stop following harming Shariat will do better for your women, who do not have to leave faith to marry a Hindu.
Indian most succesful medicen decleard by their intelligent troll under Facest leader Modi regeam, the cow mutter and its shits, is best in Carona virus ,we Pakistani eat cow if indian use our mutter and shitt ,it will cure fast in Corona also get ride others virus of hate and superiority complex aginst Pakistan.
You eat cow it’s your choice, it is not a super natural food that you alone eat. All world eat cow except hindu. So it’s not a specia.
Second. Clean your brain coz cow shit??? enter inside your brain.
3rd even in Islam camel ?urine also used for as medicine. So urine is urine , it’s came from cow or camel
The man who has written this is no doubt a genius and has an IQ of 200 but look where has he wasted his talent.. come on dude get a new job or just join ISRO.. no no dont do that, but write an article so your people stop worshipping cows and drinking their urine as vaccine for the corona virus..
will talk about the toilets after that ??
Some of us rather worship cows than so.e jackass named momhamad. I saw him at my local walmart working. I gyess he was making some profit. Profit moHAMad.
Since events of last 27 Feb, Endian has lost mind and peace, just conqure 8 hundread thousend bulshit on innocense Kashmiries ,
.Not at all and chill dude, if you can properly digest the bad news of 50 year old MIG’s doings ite tea and breakfast by F-16 by Avinandan, then you will come over this mental phase dude.
4th most intelligent nation in the world? What intelligence created Bangladesh? So intelligent and yet unable to deliver Kashmir to Pak people, unable to subdue Balochistan or Pushtunistan, unable to install Taliban in Kabul, unable to revive economy, unable to be free from Chinese embrace….Very intelligent indeed.You should be number 1 really.
We too can supply you Masks made from Undear Wear… their quality would be much better than China…. You idiot’s….. truly begger
Hey@ThePrint,
In light of fairness and the good ol’ sport of comebacks, would you print/post a rebuttal to this article?
It can’t hurt to see the lighter side of things on your side of the eastern hemisphere. It would be really interesting because it’s difficult to beat the Indians in the art of snide comments, especially when you’re, you know, one-fifth the population.
Let me know if you will.
Time to court martial Gen. Twitter.
Rajesh
To whomsoever it may concern
We are a set of two foolish nations who keep on degrading and rubbishing each other cuz we have nothing better to do.Our kids are going to laugh at us that is,if we don’t make them like we are.Wake up and be good to each other cuz that’s what is written in books we rever….gita and koran
Sir you have a good soul.god bless you.i wish to see india and pakistan resolving kashmir issue peacefully and live like good neighbour’s in my lifetime.
Tell the General to fight poverty and terrorism in his country of intelligent people. Stop worrying about lndia and start cleaning up your own messy world. Anyplace where people are going hungry is a tragic story.
Let us presume Print is 100 percent right in article regarding pak affairs. Do you have courage to write about two known criminals of world Modi and Amit Shah as they have killed human being and their RSS racial agenda? I hope you’ll highlight their face also. If you don’t then it seems you simply Zee news broadcaster who always runs Pak bashing new. Hope sense will prevail
Modi & Shah are right people at right time backed by a billion Indians -democratically choosen, unlike IK and his shaky govt.
well said.
Speaking about murders pakistan as a nation should not exist!
Anyway it’s only a matter of time before you become PAANCH TUKHDA PAKISTAN AND ???
As always only bakwas
Good that they acknowledge that Imran is incapacitated. Even Better is that there is Lockdown. Apart from that some offical fake news of two jets. A lot of ‘I this, I that , I, I ….’ almost stopping short of calling himself GOD’ .
But 4th i intelligent? Really? Is he pulling the nations leg? Any way! Enjoyed the article…
Sometimes I really wonder why India has yet not become a great nation, inspite of so many resources available to them. I think the best reason for that is that they are morally so weak and at times so characterless that they would go to any depth just to feed their false ego. Its sad and so shameful. I think the indians must refuse to hear such stupid articles where media is just playing with their emotions and keeping them in a state of fantasy.
India is not developing just because of Muslims. They are most unproductive like Pakistan,and other country Muslims.
They still live in 7 th century cult. Their population increased from9%to15%. That is they have added 8 crore population.
For India they became a a curse for development
LMAO IF THEY CAN GIVE MEDALS FOR WAR LOSSES, THEY SURE CAN BECOME “4TH MOST INTELLIGENT”.
YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS 4TH MOST INTELLIGENT ANIMAL?????
ITS PIG!!!!
???
LEMME TELL YOU THIS. THE ONLY NEWSPAPER REPORTING THIS RATHER FALSE “ACHIEVEMENT ” IS PAKISTANI MEDIA, AND GUESS WHO CONTROLS IT?
ITS GENERAL TWITTER…??
Pakistan has to get medicines from india , as 13 countries are urgently buying , including usa , and do not depend on china , the only friendly country.
All countries want to do business with 130 crores democratic India.
What a artical All can I say Get well soon Mr General. Stop Fake Propogandas. You guys cant compete with India if you really earned respect in the world stop terrorism in you country instead of spending money on terrorism against India spend that money in your country to remove poverty,spend money on education and improve your economy.
This shows the wish list of indian propaganda machinery. What a dirty mindset the idiot indians have. They keep dreaming against Pakistan.
Pakistan is the fourth most intelligent country in the world? Okay. Agreed. Tell me, which are the two countries between India and Pakistan?
Is the underwear used to made of masks were women or men. Men supposed to not to wear women underware masks as per our mullas
Carry on General
Indian lalas………….
WE DEMOLISH SUCH BABURS.
Continue to wear mask made of Chinese used underwear. That gives you the intoxication to blabber. No wonder babber blabbers
This was boring
Aoa.it is not the statement od dg Ispr
I think.
Definitely,,,writer has kept has identity hidden,,he is one of the”ghafoora haters”,,,#Endian..#Mirchi….
Fake, cowardice writer.
Pak Army and ISI is a Force of Angel.
India is winning the war against Coronavirus. India’s renowned scientists have discovered cure for the killer virus. It is available now at every corner store in India : Buy one and Get one free GAO Mootr And Gao Gobar. Well done Indians, you are a country of great intellect. Your intellectual Prime Minister highly recommends it, tried and tested by him. So go for it!
Indians do not have guts to confront us. Attacked our motherland like a Jackal in the night whereas our jets were send as Lions in the day light. Watch the result in Abhinandan. Kalbhushan Yadav is in our custody and still we are called the Terrorists by stupid Indians. Come again soon. Waiting for you cowards. By the way Taliban will also be back in the game very soon.
You depend on taliban! Remember only two indian kings have so far are the only one in the world who have defeated and subdued the afghans; maharajah ranjit Singh
and rajput king jeypaul! By the way afghan to Indonessia (including pak and bangla) have been our part and very soon pak will bite the dust and You will not even realise!
PAANCH TUKHDA pakistan
A simply pathetic, irrelevant, utter non sense generated out of cow dung and urine. A mere reflection of the lunatic, defeated to the core nation, where engulfed in cow dung their MPs demonstrate protection from a nuclear attack.
A nation shit scared of even an innocent pigeon that flies to their territory from Pakistan.
A nation where the media is the worst of all times and ages, in every definition of the word; still gets battered and shunted at their own home by One brave soldier of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf. A man who makes a mockery of them all, proving them a laughing stock to the entire world, yet single handedly.
Such a poor attempt at ridiculing General Asif Ghafoor who proved to be a nightmare to the entire nation and the third largest, though equally incompetent, Army of the world.
Abhinandan is the joke of a century, and will remain a laughing stock for generations to come.
Indians ! stay home, stay safe. Abhinandan is a testimony to it.
So stop screwing around. Drink some fresh water for a change !!
Abhinandan is a joke yes as you Pakis or is it porkis could not take on even our mig 21 with your F16 which was downed by him and he did all this fully knowing that he will have to eject into pak! See the confidence !
Your own pilot of another F16 which crashed because his pants were wet fearing entering India and he ejected in pak but you cowards seeing his wet pant killed him!
In Kargil you could not accept your own soldiers bodies, and in the latest Feb 27 th you lost 2 F 16s and both your pilots are gone!
We have our pilot Abhinandan and we have a Rafale ready for him but you have lost two pilots who as individuals are irreplaceable!
No wonder your prime minister (common senseless imran Khan who looks more like a product of gadaafi) could not weigh the life of pskistanis in the fight against corona and the army had to come to your rescue!
Well we will ensure that you are broken even before you realise into PAANCH TUKDA PORKISTAN ???️
Annnnnd nobody gives a shit. A country who cannot provide medicine cannot provide ventilators masks PPEs should not talk about intelligence and only intelligence you have is in terrorism activities and nothing else that’s why you guys start from bottom in every list.