'we Have Been Doing This Dirty Work...': Pak Defence Minister Khawaja Asif's Big Admission

Pakistan defence curate Khawaja Asif connected Friday made a large admittance that Pakistan has been doing nan "dirty work" for nan US and nan West including nan UK for astir 3 decades. 

"We person been doing this soiled activity for United States for astir 3 decades you cognize and nan West including Britain," Asif told Sky News successful an interview. He was responding to a mobility connected if Pakistan has a agelong history of supporting, training and backing violent organisations.

The Pakistani curate besides claimed successful nan question and reply that Pakistan's way grounds would person been unblemished had it not participated successful nan warfare against nan Soviet Union and nan warfare connected panic aft nan 9/11 attacks.

Asif besides said that nary different state successful nan world has suffered arsenic overmuch owed to coercion arsenic Pakistan because of nan wars successful Afghanistan successful nan 80s and 90s. He moreover accused India of pursuing a shape of blaming Pakistan for incidents connected its soil, citing nan onslaught connected Sikhs erstwhile erstwhile US President Bill Clinton visited India.

India had asserted that nan Pakistan-based panic outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was down nan massacre. "We are very acquainted pinch nan symptom it inflicts connected nan group and nan state and nan federation erstwhile we are subjected to coercion but this benignant of a shape which is going connected India." 

He moreover warned that nan Pakistani Army was "prepared for immoderate eventuality" amid escalating tensions betwixt India and Pakistan. During nan interview, he besides said that nan world should beryllium "worried" astir nan likelihood of a full-scale warfare involving India and Pakistan, some of which person atomic weapons.

He, however, said that he hoped that nan conflict could beryllium resolved done negotiations betwixt nan 2 countries. Asif besides bizarrely claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) did not beryllium anymore and denied having immoderate knowledge astir its offshoot The Resistance Front (TRF).

TRF has claimed nan work for nan Pahalgam attack. "Lashkar is an aged name. It does not exist," Asif said. His connection comes successful nan aftermath of nan panic onslaught successful Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that claimed nan lives of 26 people, mostly tourists. 

India has retaliated by taking stern negotiated measures against Pakistan including nan suspension of Indus Waters Treaty, expulsion of Pakistani subject attaches, and nan contiguous shutting down of nan Attari onshore transit post. 

India has besides revoked each nan visas issued to Pakistani nationals from April 27 and advised Indian nationals successful Pakistan to return location aat nan earliest. In response, Pakistan has cancelled visas for Indians and put nan Shimla statement connected hold. 

Published on: Apr 25, 2025 11:56 AM IST