Surgical strike by India will meet befitting response: defence minister

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday warned neighbouring India of severe consequences in case of a surgical strike.In a fiery speech during the Senate session, Asif

In a fiery speech during the Senate session, Asif said “If India conducts a surgical strike such a response would be given that the country would not even dream of it.”Defence Minister Asif said that India does not want to continue the process of negotiation. The neighbouring country doesn’t want tension to subside, he stated.

Khawaja Asif said that Pakistan has garnered successes in war against terrorism.

“The coalition of 16 countries’ militaries in Afghanistan was no way near our level of success,” he said.

Asif said that the armed forces successfully eliminated the terrorist safe havens in North Waziristan.

The Senate also unanimously passed a resolution against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for linking terrorism to Pakistan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had branded Pakistan a “mothership of terrorism” at the summit of BRICS nations in October.

Modi’s remarks to a meeting of leaders from BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – aimed to escalate his diplomatic drive to isolate Pakistan.

Modi’s statements failed to muster the support of BRICS leaders to include Pakistan in the five-nation bloc’s declaration as a terrorist state.

In their joint statement, the BRICS leaders had condemned recent attacks against some of its members “including that in India” but had made no mention of Pakistan.