After talks collapsed following days of border hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif issued a strong warning to Taliban rulers in Kabul, telling them that if they wished to test Islamabad’s resolve, they must do so “at their own risk and perdition.”
“We have endured your betrayal and ridicule for too long, but nothing more. Any terrorist attack or suicide bombing inside Pakistan will give you the bitter taste of such misadventures. Rest assured and test our resolve and capabilities, if you wish, at your own peril and perdition,” he posted on X.
The Defense Minister said that while Pakistan had entered into talks to give peace a chance at the request of brotherly countries, to whom the Kabul rulers were persistently pleading, “the venomous statements of certain Afghan officials clearly reflect the devious and divided mentality of the Taliban regime.”
“Let me assure you that Pakistan does not need to employ even a fraction of its entire arsenal to completely destroy the Taliban regime and force them to return to the caves to hide. If they wish, a replay of the scenes of their defeat in Tora Bora with their tails between their legs would surely be a sight to behold for the people of the region.”
Asif further accused the Taliban rulers in Kabul of “blindly pushing Afghanistan into yet another conflict, just to preserve their usurped government and maintain the war economy that sustains them.”
“Despite fully knowing the inherent limitations and hollowness of their war cries, they are beating the drums of war to maintain their crumbling façade. If the Afghan Taliban regime is madly bent on ruining Afghanistan and its innocent people once again, so be it,” he said.
In his post, Asif also referred to the phrase “graveyard of empires” used for Afghanistan in relation to the historical cases of several nations that failed to conquer the country.
“As for the narrative of cemetery of empiresPakistan certainly does not claim to be an empire, but Afghanistan is definitely a graveyard, surely for its own people. You have never been a graveyard of empires, but certainly a playground of empires, which you have been throughout history,” Asif commented.
He said that “the Taliban regime’s warmongers, who have a vested interest in continued instability in the region, should know that they have probably misinterpreted our determination and courage.”
“If the Taliban regime wants to fight us, the world, Insha Allah (God willing), will see that their threats are just a performative circus!”
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