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Pakistan's nuclear programme meant solely for defence: Khawaja Asif

2025-08-16

Then why do they keep threatening India with it?

[GEO.TV] Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the country's nuclear assets are solely for national defence and not intended for any form of nuclear blackmail or coercion.

Speaking exclusively with Geo News on Friday, the defence minister said: ''We do not threaten anyone with our nuclear capability. It is purely a guarantee of our national security.''

While aiming at Indian PM Narendra Modi, Khawaja Asif said: ''Modi now sees Pakistain and its military even in his dreams. For him, the idea of war with Pakistain has become a nightmare.''

Asif went on to say that Pakistain has fought and won wars in self-defence, while Modi now faces a different kind of conflict within India itself.

''There is growing dissent inside India, even from citizens and opposition leaders who say Modi's attitude brought the region to the brink of war,'' he added.

Pakistain and India engaged in the military confrontation in May 2025, triggered by an attack in April on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(IIOJK) that New Delhi blamed on Islamabad, before agreeing to a ceasefire.

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