'khawaja Asif Has Gone Crazy': Ex-foreign Secretary Blasts Pak Minister For His 'no Country Will Survive' Threat

India's erstwhile overseas caput Kanwal Sibal tore into Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif connected Tuesday, saying he had "gone disconnected his rocker" aft a bid of provocative statements from Islamabad.

"He (Khawaja Asif) has gone disconnected his rocker. If Pakistan’s beingness is threatened nan Pakistan defence curate will destruct nan world, presumably China even, too nan US, Russia, Europe," Sibal said successful a sharply worded consequence to Asif's informing of a imaginable atomic response.

Asif, successful an question and reply pinch Samaa TV, declared, "If Modi applies nan aforesaid mentality that Netanyahu is using, past Pakistan will respond successful specified a measurement that history will retrieve that a state responded for illustration this. If Pakistan's beingness is threatened...if immoderate benignant of action is taken against us, past nary 1 will survive."

The remark was wide seen arsenic a cloaked atomic threat amid rising tensions pursuing nan Pahalgam panic onslaught successful Jammu and Kashmir. 

"There are reports that India whitethorn onslaught astatine immoderate constituent on nan LoC… New Delhi will beryllium fixed a befitting reply,” Asif said astatine a property briefing successful Islamabad connected Monday. Not conscionable that, Asif earlier warned that immoderate building built by India to divert h2o nether nan Indus Waters Treaty would beryllium treated arsenic an enactment of war. 

Hours aft nan Pahalgam attack, India suspended nan treaty, which supplies h2o to astir 80% of Pakistan's cultivation land. "That will beryllium aggression against Pakistan...even if they (India) made an architectural effort of this kind, past Pakistan will destruct that structure,” Asif said successful an interview. 

The India-Pakistan standoff has triggered world concern. US governmental intelligence John Mearsheimer warned that nan business could escalate into a full-scale war. "This is simply a very vulnerable situation. These are 2 nuclear-armed countries that person a history of fighting wars. There is existent imaginable for a existent warfare and location is existent imaginable for atomic use,” Mearsheimer told The Spectator.
 

Published on: May 6, 2025 3:12 PM IST