{"id":18760,"date":"2025-05-09T03:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T03:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=18760"},"modified":"2025-05-09T03:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T03:57:31","slug":"indian-drone-strikes-make-pakistani-response-increasingly-certain-khawaja-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=18760","title":{"rendered":"Indian drone strikes make Pakistani response &#8216;increasingly certain&#8217;: Khawaja Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Amid rising tensions, defence minister says US is leading global efforts to de-escalate the Pakistan-India tensions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/khwaja-asif1745692830-0\/khwaja-asif1745692830-0.webp\" alt=\"defence minister khawaja asif photo app file\" title=\"defence minister khawaja asif photo app file\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Defence Minister Khawaja Asif. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wake of a series of drone incursions by India, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that these strikes make a Pakistani response to India &#8220;increasingly certain.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to&nbsp;<em>Reuters<\/em>, the minister highlighted the growing tensions between the two nations, while also noting that the United States is taking the lead in global efforts to de-escalate the situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His statement comes amid&nbsp;rising regional tensions&nbsp;as Pakistan&nbsp;downed at least 29&nbsp;Israeli-made Harop drones launched by India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remotely-piloted aircraft, which entered Pakistani airspace and were detected over multiple cities, were neutralised using a combination of electronic countermeasures (soft-kill) and conventional weapons (hard-kill), as confirmed by the military\u2019s media wing, the ISPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This escalation follows a tragic attack early Wednesday morning&nbsp;in which Indian forces launched missile strikes that martyred at least 31 civilians in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan has condemned these attacks as \u201cterrorism,\u201d accusing India of violating the ceasefire agreement on the Line of Control (LoC) and exacerbating the already volatile situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2544736\/indian-drone-strikes-make-pakistani-response-increasingly-certain-khawaja-asif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2544736\/indian-drone-strikes-make-pakistani-response-increasingly-certain-khawaja-asif<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising tensions, defence minister says US is leading global efforts to de-escalate the Pakistan-India tensions. 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In the wake of a series of drone incursions by India, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that these strikes make a Pakistani response to India &#8220;increasingly certain.&#8221; Speaking to&nbsp;Reuters, the minister highlighted the growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,17876,17076,17719,17878,17877,36,17762,60],"class_list":["post-18760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-india","tag-india-continued-drone-stikes-inside-pakistan","tag-india-pakistan-tension","tag-indian-agression-against-pakistan","tag-indian-drone-strikes-make-pakistani-response-increasingly-certain-khawaja-asif","tag-israel-supplied-drones-shot-down-in-pakistan","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistans-responce","tag-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18762,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions\/18762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}