Asif explains the military pact with Türkiye and Saudi Arabia in these terms
The military pact signed this week by Pakistan – the only Islamic majority country in the world with a nuclear arsenal – with Turkey and Saudi Arabia is part of a context in which Israel “represents a threat to the entire Muslim world”. This was stated by Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif in an interview with a local newspaper broadcast over the weekend by various Arab and international media.
Asif evoked the need for Muslim countries to create “a united military front” against this threat, not without pointing out Israel as “an illegitimate state, produced by the Balfour Declaration” of 1919, and accusing it of “threatening each of the countries in the region”. He also ruled out that the next Israeli elections and the possible exit of Benyamin Netanyahu could change anything: “It doesn’t matter who comes to power in Jerusalem, whether Naftali Bennet or someone else becomes prime minister, the differences will only be marginal, since their attitude against the Palestinians and their anti-Islamic mentality will not disappear.”
According to the Defense Minister of Pakistan, a country that combines a strong alliance with China with historical ties with the West, the objective of the Jewish State remains to try to “play Muslim countries against each other”, while “the Islamic world must remain united until the Palestinian issue is definitively resolved”.
