RAWALPINDI: An ISPR spokesman on Friday strongly denied a foreign agency report that security forces had abandoned the Siplatoi fort in South Waziristan Agency on Thursday.

The spokesman said in a statement that the ‘incorrect’ news had been reported without verification from the authorities concerned.

The Siplatoi fort had not been abandoned and security forces were still holding it. However, miscreants had attacked it using rockets and small arms and security forces returned fire.

The spokesman ‘advised’ the media against using such ‘baseless’ news.—APP