ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday, issued a stern warning to India, stating that Islamabad will change the geography of India altogether if India tries to launch an aggression against Pakistan in the future.
While talking on the show “Capital Talk” presented by Hamid Mir, the Pakistani Defence Minister gave a stern reply to the recent comments made by the military brass of India, adding that India is still suffering the aftereffects of its last confrontation with Pakistan.
“If India dares to challenge Pakistan again, we will change its geography and turn it into part of history,” Khawaja Asif said during the televised interview.
The Minister was quite clear in stating that India had suffered setbacks in its earlier confrontation and was still bearing the brunt of the consequences of these events. This statement has been made during a period of tension between the two neighboring nuclear countries who dominate regional security discussions.
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Kabul Is Playing Both Sides
Within the changing political dynamics of Afghanistan, Khawaja Asif has accused some officials of the Afghan government of having close connections with India. As per him, he had met some former presidents of Afghanistan including Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani along with some officials of Afghan Taliban.
He revealed that he himself had flown to Qatar to meet Mullah Yaqoob who is the son of Mullah Omar and one of the strongest men in the Afghan Taliban government at the moment. He had a face-to-face meeting with him without any diplomacy in his demands.
We are not asking for the moon. Do not give our enemies a place to hide. Do not hand them weapons. Do not treat them as guests.” He then appealed to something more personal than politics. “We bled for your cause for decades. We treated your enemies as our own. Is it too much to ask that you do the same for us?” And when that argument did not appear to fully land, he tried a different angle. “If you refuse to see our enemies as yours, fine. But at least stop treating them as friends
He also confirmed meetings with Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani during previous Afghan governments — painting a picture of a defence minister who has spent years in direct, sometimes frustrating dialogue with Kabul across different regimes, with limited results.
The 28th Amendment?
On the proposed 28th constitutional amendment, which has been the subject of considerable political noise lately, he was blunt. “The cabinet has not discussed it. Not once.” No draft, no talks, no schedule nothing to report.
Indus Waters: The Court Already Ruled
He closed on the Indus Waters Treaty, the 66-year-old water-sharing agreement that India has recently moved to destabilise. Khawaja Asif reminded viewers that The Hague already ruled in Pakistan’s favour. The treaty, he argued, has built-in machinery to handle exactly the kind of disputes India is now manufacturing. “The mechanism exists. We will use it.”
