Fazl should be asked which institution he's talking about: ISPR.

KARACHI -- Following MauAlana Fazlur Rehman's speech in Islamabad in which he asked unnamed institutions to act impartially on Friday, the military came with a strong response, telling the JUI-F chief and opposition parties that the Army was an impartial institution and it supported the democratically elected government.

In his speech, Maulana Fazl had told the Azadi march that 'we do not desire a clash with the institutions' and expected them to be 'impartial'.

Later in the night, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) director general Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor joined the special transmission of ARY News over the phone and asked, in response to a question of the anchor, the JUI-F chief about the institution he had referred to in his speech.

'Fazlur Rehman is a seasoned politician...first he should be asked which institution he was talking about,' he told ARY News. 'Is he referring to the election commission or judiciary or the army?'

'[If he was referring to the army] the opposition should understand that the army is an impartial organisation. We believe on the rule of the law and the Constitution. Our support is not for one party but it lies with a democratically elected government,' he said.

The ISPR chief said if the opposition had complaints about the transparency of the July 25, 2018, general elections and because of this it was 'dragging the army' into politics then they should keep one thing in mind that the army had fulfilled its constitutional and legal...