Did some digging in regards to this istories and found they are connected to OCCRP. Now to the uninitiated let's just say that occrp is a known Russia basher funded by the likes of NED and the British foreign office as can be gathered from their own list of backers here...
By the same token we can not believe Western sources for Russian casualty figures either. And Moscow Times definitely comes under the category of pro-Ukraine sources.
I will actually like to add the name is there just to deceive.
The Moscow Times isn't really a credible source.
It's Amsterdam based and it's Moscow offices were closed due to anti-Russian propaganda (if I remember correctly).
The name is there to deceive people into believing its a pro-Russian or Russian based source. In reality it is neither.
The aloofness is due to the Brown sahib mentality drilled in to the Army command.
They believe their legitimacy comes from State and Defence departments of the USA. Rather than the Pakistani populace.
The Pakistani Army has gone rogue and has started killing, harassing and Blackmailing all those patriots who doesn't accept its diktat of complete subservience to USA.
The institution that produces the like of Bajwa, Babar, Anjum and Faisal is not one that will correct course any time soon.
The Army needs to be brought under constitutional control or it's rogue behaviour will continue.
Not strange at all. Completely in line with the criminal enterprise of...
I know plenty of Army officers who serve both in their units and in ISI.
This is especially true of commissioned officers.
So in short you can not really separate the Army from the intelligence (suppression) unit.
It was impossible for the west to do what they are doing in Ukraine today.
Back in 2008 US+NATO were facing two active insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine the results if Russia supplied 1/10 to the Taliban of what the US is supplying Ukraine.
What would you rather have. Live within your country's means with dignity and freedom or live as a beggar with full stomach but with no dignity and freedom.
The choice is simple.