{"id":10285,"date":"2025-08-15T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=10285"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:07:04","slug":"pakistans-nuclear-programme-meant-solely-for-defence-khawaja-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=10285","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s nuclear programme meant solely for defence: Khawaja Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Asif says Pakistan doesn\u2019t believe in nuclear blackmail.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Accuses India of sponsoring terrorism through proxies.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Minister says Modi fears Pakistan even in his dreams.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the country\u2019s nuclear assets are solely for national defence and not intended for any form of nuclear blackmail or coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking exclusively with&nbsp;<em>Geo News<\/em>&nbsp;on Friday, the defence minister said: \u201cWe do not threaten anyone with our nuclear capability. It is purely a guarantee of our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While aiming at Indian PM Narendra Modi, Khawaja Asif said: \u201cModi now sees Pakistan and its military even in his dreams. For him, the idea of war with Pakistan has become a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asif went on to say that Pakistan has fought and won wars in self-defence, while Modi now faces a different kind of conflict within India itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is growing dissent inside India, even from citizens and opposition leaders who say Modi\u2019s attitude brought the region to the brink of war,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Criticising Modi\u2019s leadership, saying that India\u2019s previous political and economic standing has declined under his rule. He said that Modi\u2019s failures have become an opportunity for the Indian opposition, who he said are now capitalising on his \u201cmissteps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turning to security matters, the defence minister accused India of backing terrorism in Pakistan and internationally, saying that Modi was behind recent incidents in both Pakistan and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that [terror] groups like the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Taliban factions operating in Pakistan are proxies of India and that Pakistan holds clear evidence of Indian involvement, which has been shared with international forums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we behave like good neighbours, peace in South Asia is possible. The people of this region deserve economic progress and stability,\u201d the defence minister concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the country\u2019s nuclear assets are solely for national defence and not intended for any form of nuclear blackmail or coercion. Speaking exclusively with&nbsp;Geo News&nbsp;on Friday, the defence minister said: \u201cWe do not threaten anyone with our nuclear capability. It is purely a guarantee of our national security.\u201d While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10287,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions\/10287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}