PTC News Desk: Pakistan's defence minister blatantly admitted to supporting and backing terrorist organisations for the last three decades blamed the US and West for the same. The remarks comes in corroboration of New Delhi's stance holding Islamabad responsible for the terror attacks orchestrated in Pahalgam leaving 26 dead.
In a video clip that has now gone viral, Pakistan's defence minister is in conversation with Sky News's Yalda Hakim, when she asks him, " But you do admit, you do admit, sir, that Pakistan has had a long history of backing and supporting and training and funding these terrorist organisations?
Khwaja Asif in his reply says, "We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about 3 decades... and the west, including Britain...That was a mistake, and we suffered for that, and that is why you are saying this to me. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on the war after 9/11, Pakistan's track record was unimpeachable."
The Pakistani Defence Minister has also in the interview with Sky News presenter Yalda Hakim warned of an "all-out war" possible with India.
Asif's statement lays bare the fact that Pakistan, for many years, has been harbouring these terror groups.
Earlier, India's foreign secretary Vikram Misri had said that in the meeting of the Cabinet Committe on Security, the cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out. It was noted that this attack came in the wake of the successful holding of elections in the Union Territory and its steady progress towards economic growth and development.