Pakistan defence minister Khwaja Asif admitted that the relatives of terrorists might be living in Pakistan, but refused to accept any ties with the terrorists. Asif said, “We have cut ties with terrorism.”
While talking to a Pakistan news channel, Asif said, “The international community should probe the matter as we do not want to investigate ourselves. Pakistan has no links with the terror organisations that India refers to. We have cut all ties with terrorism. Their relatives might be living here but they are as much a threat to us as they are to the rest of the world.”
‘Pakistan has been funding and backing terror’
Earlier in April, Khawaja Asif admitted by stating that Pakistan has been funding and backing terror groups in a viral video clip. In a video clip that has now gone viral, Pakistan’s defence minister was in conversation with Sky News’s Yalda Hakim, when she asks him, “But you do admit, you do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and training and funding these terrorist organisations?”
‘We have been doing this dirty work for the United States’
In response, Asif said, “We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about 3 decades… and the west, including Britain…That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, Pakistan’s track record was unimpeachable.” Asif’s statement lays bare the fact that Pakistan, for many years, has been harbouring these terror groups.
Operation Sindoor
On May 7, the Indian Armed Forces launched a strike at the terror hideouts deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir under ‘Operation Sindoor’ on Wednesday morning in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Wing Commander Vyomika Singh had informed that a total of nine terror sites were targeted and successfully destroyed.
