{"id":848,"date":"2026-05-06T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/?p=848"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:59:16","slug":"khawaja-asif-warns-of-stronger-response-to-future-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/khawaja-asif-warns-of-stronger-response-to-future-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Khawaja Asif warns of stronger response to future aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD<\/strong>: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said Marka-e-Haq has made it clear that any future aggression will be met with a response far more intense and decisive, Radio Pakistan reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 13, 2025, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared that May 10 will be observed annually as Youm-e-Marka-e-Haq to commemorate the \u201cmagnificent success\u201d of &#8216;Operation Bunyanum Marsoos&#8217; and to express national solidarity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video statement, the defence minister said the retaliatory capabilities of the Army, Navy, and Air Force are faster and more coordinated than the enemy can imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the entire nation stands united with its armed forces as a steel wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asif said the insight and confidence of Pakistani youth are the nation\u2019s true strength and that they know how to defend the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, speaking at the launch ceremony of a picture book titled The Battle of Truth (Marka-e-Haq), published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) in collaboration with the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the minister said the entire nation stood united against any form of enemy aggression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Pakistan had emerged as a more stable and powerful country and had become a symbol of stability in the region. \u201cWe are ready for any kind of Indian proxy war,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said the Pakistan armed forces had foiled India\u2019s \u201cnefarious designs\u201d during Marka-e-Haq and successfully neutralised its S-400 air defence system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said no country in the region was safe from India\u2019s Hindutva mindset, adding that it had repeatedly imposed wars on Pakistan to divert attention from its internal issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday said Marka-e-Haq has made it clear that any future aggression will be met with a response far more intense and decisive, Radio Pakistan reported. On May 13, 2025, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared that May 10 will be observed annually as Youm-e-Marka-e-Haq to commemorate the \u201cmagnificent success\u201d of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[27],"class_list":{"0":"post-848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest","8":"category-national","9":"category-pakisstan"},"authors":[{"term_id":27,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"afnanwasif","display_name":"Web Desk","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbec8328241e98fefcd32e00f20f7a6b502086a0b95d395db4b1565c51681914?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}