Web desk: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has stated that while the United States has recognised Pakistan’s strategic victories against India, the risk of war with its neighbour remains.
Speaking to a private TV channel, Khawaja Asif said that US intervention has so far prevented full-scale conflict, but the risk of war has not been fully averted.
He noted that the possibility of another war was particularly high immediately after the conflict in May.
The minister also highlighted the ongoing issue of proxy wars, describing them as a tool of modern warfare that has persisted for decades.
“Proxy wars have never ended; they began in the 1980s and have now intensified,” he said, citing past incidents such as explosions in Lahore and Rawalpindi.
“We are in State of War”
Previously, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warned of escalating tensions with India. He said the country is now in a state of war following an Indian-sponsored suicide blast in Islamabad’s G-11 sector.
The Minister took to X and warned that anyone who thinks that the Pakistan Army is fighting this war in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and the remote areas of Balochistan “should take today’s suicide attack at the Islamabad district courts as a wake-up call: this is a war for all of Pakistan, in which the Pakistan Army is giving daily sacrifices and making the people feel secure.”
He said that in this environment, it would be futile to hold out any hope for successful negotiations with the Afghan Taliban.
“The rulers of Kabul can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but bringing this war all the way to Islamabad is a message from Kabul, to which praise be to God, Pakistan has the full strength to respond,” Khawaja Asif added.
ھم حالت جنگ میں ھیں کوئ یہ سنجھے کہ پاک فوج یہ جنگ افغان پاکستان سرحدی علاقے میں اور بلوچستان کے دور دراز علاقے میں لڑرہی ھے تو آج اسلام آباد ضلع کچہری میں خود کش حملہ wake up call ھے کہ یہ سارے پاکستان کی جنگ ھے جسمیں پاک فوج روز قربانیاں دے رہی ھے اور عوام کو تحفظ کا احساس دلا…
— Khawaja M. Asif (@KhawajaMAsif) November 11, 2025
