The Defence Minister of Pakistan, Khawaja Asif, in his recent remarks, threatened to "obliterate" the Afghan Taliban and push them back to the caves in case of any future terror attack in Islamabad. The statement came on Wednesday, a day after peace talks between the two Asian neighbouring countries failed.
“Venomous statements by certain Afghan officials clearly reflect the devious and splintered mindset of the Taliban regime”, the Pakistani defence minister added.
“Let me assure them that Pakistan does not require employing even a fraction of its full arsenal to completely obliterate the Taliban regime and push them back to the caves for hiding. If they wish so, the repeat of the scenes of their rout at Tora Bora with their tails between the legs would surely be a spectacle to watch for the people of the region,” Asif wrote in a post on X.
“If the Taliban regime wants to fight, the world will INSHAALLAH (God willing) see that their threats are only a performative circus! We have borne your treachery and mockery for too long, but no more. Any terrorist attack or any suicide bombing inside Pakistan shall give you the bitter taste of such misadventures. Be rest assured and test our resolve and capabilities, if you wish so, at your own peril and doom,” he then added to his statement.
"As far as the narrative of ‘graveyard of empires’, Pakistan certainly doesn't claim to be an empire, but Afghanistan is definitely a graveyard, surely for its own people. Never a graveyard of empires but certainly a playground of empires you have been throughout history,” he said.
In the Pakistani defence minister’s opinion, the ‘Taliban are “beating the war drums to maintain their crumbling façade.’
“If the Afghan Taliban regime is madly hell bent upon ruining Afghanistan and its innocent people once again, then so be it,” he warned.
Meanwhile, the United Nations voiced concern over the collapse of talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan, hoping that the “fighting will not renew”, reported the media, adding that UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said, "Yes, it is, of course. We very much hope that even if the talks are on pause, the fighting will not renew,” he told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York.
Pakistan's main demand is that the Taliban should take action against militants using Afghanistan's soil for militancy in Pakistan.
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