Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif fumbled seven times during his UN address while discussing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and India-Pakistan tensions.
Asif was speaking at the session chaired by UN chief Antonio Guterres. Observers noted that he slipped up multiple times, including mispronunciations.
The minister pronounced “risk” as “riks”, and “development” as “developend.” He also said “breathtaking space” instead of “breathtaking pace.”
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A video clip of his speech went viral on social media, with netizens mocking him. Some even commented, “Arre, kehna kya chahte ho…?”
Another user wrote, “He can’t even speak one sentence properly.”
On September 20, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif gave conflicting statements on whether the country’s nuclear capability “will be made available” to Saudi Arabia under the new defence agreement signed between the two nations.
Speaking first in an interview to Geo TV, when asked if the “deterrence that Pakistan gets from nuclear weapons” will be made available to Saudi Arabia, Asif said, “Let me make one-point clear about Pakistan’s nuclear capability: that capability as established long ago when we conducted tests. Since then, we have forces trained for the battle.”
“What we have, and the capabilities we possess, will be made available to (Saudi Arabia) according to this agreement, ” he added.
However, in a separate interview to Reuters, Asif denied that nuclear weapons were part of the accord, calling them “not on the radar, “reported Dawn News, citing Reuters.
Later during a weekly media briefing, Foreign Office spokesman Shafqat Ali Khan avoided a direct response on the matter, only saying that Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine has “evolved and continues to do so.”
