 "'No option left other than full blown war', says Pakistan's Khawaja Asif amid escalating tensions with India")
Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday said that Islamabad has “no option left other than full a blown war” in response to what he described as India’s increasingly aggressive posture over the past four days.
“We dont have any other options other than this …. We have to pay them back in the same coin,” said Asif in an interview to a Pakistani news channel.
When the anchor asked if the “war is at our door?”, he replied, “Absolutely, there shouldn’t be any doubt on this…”
Before Pakistan carried out failed drone attack on multiple Indian military establishments on Thursday night, Asif on Wednesday said that Pakistan was trying to avoid a full-blown war with India.
“There is a possibility of expansion of this conflict into a full-fledged war, which we are trying to avoid,” CNN quoted Asif as saying on Wednesday.
His comments came in the wake of India’s Operation Sindoor launched early Wednesday, during which nine terror targets were struck in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives.
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