Troops capable of responding to any aggression, says Asif
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SIALKOT: Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Sunday that the armed forces were fully capable of effectively responding to any aggression and protecting the country’s boundaries.
Addressing a ceremony in Iman Sahib area, he condemned shelling by Indian Border Security Force on Pakistani villages along the Working Boundary and termed it naked aggression.
He said Pakistan would not compromise on its sovereignty and would adopt all options to protect every inch of the motherland.
Also read: India wants to engage Pakistan in ‘low-intensity war’: Asif
Khawaja Asif said the shelling was an attempt to divert attention of Pakistan from the operation against terrorism.
He said Pakistan as a peace-loving country was making sincere efforts to develop cordial relations with its neighbours on the basis of equality but India was trying to create unrest in the region.
The defence minister said that Operation Zarb-i-Azb had been launched to eliminate terrorists and restore the write of the state in troubled areas.
Published in Dawn, March 2nd, 2015
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Mar 02, 2015 09:28am
Long live Pak Army.
Give a crushing reply to Indian aggression.
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Mar 02, 2015 09:41am
Sir u r not equal to India .so now we will treat u like china and america does.
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Mar 02, 2015 09:44am
Who is he again? Was there anyone there to listen to this guy play an old record?
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Mar 02, 2015 09:45am
Let them do their job against TTP first. We do not have capability to address "any" aggression yet.
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Mar 02, 2015 09:54am
Oh, so he is the Defence Minister?
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Mar 02, 2015 09:58am
This is the man who said the opposite of his this statement earlier in the Parliament. He is either lieing now or he was lieing then. Merely on this character flaw this man should be thrown out of cabinet and Parliament and commense garbage cleaning.
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Mar 02, 2015 10:18am
Look who is talking for Great Pak Army
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Mar 02, 2015 10:26am
I am listening these claims /stories from both sides since childhood.
India has moved on to compete with world
In terms of development but pakistan is still standing at the same point.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:06am
@indian;
You are no China, in fact quite the opposite. China has the largest number of literate people on earth, India has the largest number of illiterates on earth.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:06am
Troops are capable since 1947 and they have God gifted moral, enemy troops do not have and they know. They can not even think to enter in Pakistan and how can they defend Afghan long border along other borders. Afghans and Pakistani are brothers, have relations both sides.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:07am
The soft coup was pretty hard on this guy.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:42am
The low intensity war,Musharraf said was waged against India by Pakistan to dislodge Indians from Afghanistan.
Please look at his statement before the last one.
Now the Pakistani Defense Asif is saying that India is waging
low intensity war.
No doubt that India will and must respond to Pakistani Low Intensity War against India.
Pakistan will will again try to derail India's efforts to make
progress.
I am beginning to see the old formula being dusted out of the bottom desk drawer by Pakistan to m aline India and to used again to fool the world.
I wonder what do the time tested friends have to say about it?
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Mar 02, 2015 11:57am
Oh come on!!!! Do u really have any sovereignty, American drones flying on ur head n u can't do anything.
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Mar 02, 2015 11:58am
@indian Indians might be bigger in economy, Army, etc but it will never be stronger in any way. What Pakistan soldiers can achieve Indians only dream off in thrier bollywood movies. Pakistan soldiers go for war and not fear for their life and thats in every Pakistani soldier. If India was that strong then win back the Kashmir the way Pakistan snatched it back in the War.
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Mar 02, 2015 12:11pm
@Mustafa Bhai tum to baat aise kar rahe ho ki tumhare desh mein 100% literacy rate hain. Tumhara literacy rate India se badtar hain,aur tumhari abadi india se bahut kam hain So think about that!!!!!!
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Mar 02, 2015 12:11pm
@Truth Bangladesh?????????????? consists half of your country . 90000 POW's ?
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Mar 02, 2015 12:18pm
@indian What a shameful comment.
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Mar 02, 2015 12:24pm
@Truth Really!!!!!! U snatched Kashmir when there was no Indian army in Kashmir, try to snatch an inch of Kashmir now.
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Mar 02, 2015 12:32pm
@Truth 1971 war.
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Mar 02, 2015 12:50pm
off course we are capable of responding to any aggression but we have miserably failed one from within. We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
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Mar 02, 2015 01:06pm
"................He said Pakistan as a peace-loving country was making sincere efforts to develop cordial relations with its neighbours on the basis of equality but India was trying to create unrest in the region...................."
Is it?? Which peace loving country will want to encourage a portion of India to secede by openly supporting the separatists morally and materially? India has to be constanntly on vigil from the Jehadis being pushed in so lets not call Pakistan a "peace loving nation".
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Mar 02, 2015 02:53pm
Its hilarious when he says he will defend every inch of motherland - from what?? from IS which is now focusing on Pakistan?? Because nobody would want to bring more problems on themselves.
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Mar 02, 2015 03:59pm
@Datta this paki politician are bunch of comedians.We can just laugh nothing else
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