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Islamabad: Assuring severe retribution, Pakistan Defence minister Khawaja Asif has said that they will kill three Indian soldiers for every Pakistani soldier they neutralise.
Speaking in the National Assembly Friday, Asif said, “Dire consequences would be faced by India, if it went to war against Pakistan.”
Asserting that the situation at the LoC was intentionally being intensified by the Indian government to win people’s support in the upcoming general election, the defence minister alleged that “India was behind terrorism in Pakistan, and they have credible evidence against it”. “We have sent dossiers and video films to the UN and other countries showing India’s involvement in terrorism in Pakistan,” Asif said.
He also accused India of creating hurdles in the way of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as India was scared that the project would prove a game changer for Pakistan.
Acknowledging that Pakistan might be economically weaker than India, Asif said India knows that once the CPEC is complete, Islamabad will rise stronger. However, he said that Pakistan would try to maintain a balance of power in the region and would not respond to India in any kind.
Qamar Bajwa named Pak army chief
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday picked Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa to replace outgoing army chief Raheel Sharif, a popular military leader credited for improving security and driving back Islamist militant groups, his spokesman said. Bajwa will likely take charge of the world’s sixth-largest army by troop numbers in a handover Tuesday, when General Sharif, who is no relation to Nawaz Sharif, formally retires. The appointment of Bajwa is expected to help reset fraught relations between the military and the civilian government in a nuclear-armed nation of 190 million people. Bajwa is presently posted Inspector General (Training and Evaluation), the position held by Raheel Sharif before he was appointed army chief.
