Islamabad: Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, after facing embarrassment during recent interviews with foreign media, made another bizarre statement on Friday. While speaking in the National Assembly, Asif said that Pakistan did not use air defence systems when India attacked its cities using drones, as it would reveal the location of their weaponry.
“We didn’t intercept Indian Drones because we didn’t want to leak our locations,” the Pakistan defence minister told the country’s National Assembly.
Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s Bizarre Remark:
Asif is getting trolled for his comments.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said that Asif had lost it completely. “When Indian missiles hit, even your missile defence locations got exposed — not by your choice, but by India’s precision,” Bhandari further added.
“This is funny at so many levels,” an X user commented.
“Khawaja Asif ko hack kr Liya gya h,” another user wrote.
During his address, he also said that madrasa students are Pakistan’s second line of defence. “As far as Madrassas or Madrassa students are concerned, there’s no doubt they are our second line of defence… When the time comes, they will be used as needed,” he stated.
It is not the first time that Khawaja has made such a bizarre remark. A day after India launched Operation Sindoor targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), Asif was schooled by CNN anchor Becky Anderson due to his misleading claims regarding Indian fighter jets.
During the interview, Asif asserted that Pakistan shot down five Indian fighter jets, Rafale, during air strikes on terrorist camps on May 7. However, when the anchor asked for evidence of his assertion, he said, ““It’s all over social media, on Indian social media, not on our social media. The debris of these jets fell in Kashmir.”
The anchor interrupted the Pakistani minister and said, “The reason to talk to you today is not to talk about content on social media. I’m asking specifically for the evidence, details. For example, was any Chinese equipment used to down these Rafale jets, as I understand you are alleging to be?”
In April this year, a Sky News interviewer Asif if Pakistan had a long history of “backing and supporting and training and funding” terrorist organisations. He candidly admitted that it had.
But tried to pass on a part of the blame to the West, recalling their joint operations in support of Islamic groups fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan more than 36 years ago.
“We have been doing this dirty work for the US for the past three decades, including the West and the United Kingdom,” he claimed, although the West did not sponsor or support attacks on India.
