[DAWN] The military's media wing on Monday issued a strongly worded response to a BBC story that documented alleged human rights...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
abuses in the tribal areas of former Fata, and termed the report a "pack of lies".
The BBC story published on June 2, titled Uncovering Pakistain's secret human rights abuses, looks into Pakistain's long battle with turbans as part of the post-9/11 "war on terror" and carries the accounts of locals as well as the top leader of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), Manzoor Pashteen.