Days after Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif admitted on Sky Information that Pakistan harbours and funds terror organisations, saying that it has been “doing the West’s soiled work for many years”, an outdated video of Asif has surfaced on-line that purportedly reveals him strongly criticising the Pakistan military
Within the video, Asif — then within the opposition — is heard saying within the Nationwide Meeting: “Now we have spent a whole bunch, even hundreds of billions of rupees and {dollars} on defence over the previous 58 years. But what’s the story of these years? 1948, 1965, 1971, 1984, and 1999 — in the event you collect the representatives of this nation and examine these 5 wars, anybody with even a shred of self-respect would bow their head in disgrace. But even right this moment, they proceed to demand a bloated defence price range with full impunity, beating their chests proudly.”

“They’ve sucked the marrow from the bones of this nation. Right this moment, the nation lives in abject poverty. The persons are ignorant, destitute, and poor. They don’t even have entry to wash ingesting water — and once they do drink, they undergo from gastroenteritis, hepatitis A, B, and C,” he provides.
“As my brother Chaudhry Manzoor identified, there are separate books for the poor and totally different ones for the wealthy. The wealthy have totally different hospitals; the poor have totally different hospitals. If this can be a welfare state, if Pakistan is really a welfare state, then it’s a welfare state just for Pakistan’s armed forces — not for the frequent folks. If there’s any assure, it’s only for the training, well being, luxuries, properties, plots, flats, and mansions of a choose class. This choose class has dominated this nation for 43 years with none accountability. Nobody has ever questioned them: what did you construct for this nation? What have you ever destroyed? The outcomes are earlier than us.”

‘Pak supported terror’

The video comes simply days after, Asif admitted on Sky Information that Pakistan-based terror teams are “not a number of organisations” however “one single organisation religiously organised with totally different faces”.
When requested by Sky’s Yalda Hakim on Thursday evening whether or not he admitted Pakistan has an extended historical past of backing, funding and coaching terror organisations, Asif replied: “Now we have been doing this soiled work for the USA for about three many years and for the West, together with Britain. That was a mistake and we suffered for that. If we had not joined the warfare towards the Soviet Union and the warfare after 9/11, Pakistan’s monitor report was unimpeachable.”
Asif stated that his nation would reply “in variety” to any assault by nuclear rival New Delhi in retaliation for Pahalgam and referred to as on US President Donald Trump to “deliver sanity to the state of affairs”.
“Now we have already ready for it — any eventuality that takes place. We are going to measure our response to no matter is initiated by India. If there’s an all-out assault clearly there will likely be all-out warfare.”
He stated terror teams in Pakistan have been “used as proxies by the USA”, and earlier the identical terror teams had been handled like VIPs in Washington. “After we have been preventing the warfare on their facet within the ’80s towards the Soviet Union, all these terrorists of right this moment, they have been wining and eating in Washington. Then got here 9/11. Once more the identical state of affairs was created. I feel our govt then made a mistake.”