Asif: foreign military bases protect Israel, not Muslims
At a Sialkot university convocation, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif argued Muslim states mistook overseas bases for security and urged reliance on national strength instead.
Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif spoke at the University of Central Punjab’s annual convocation in Sialkot on Saturday.
He said foreign military bases in the Middle East were set up mainly for foreign powers and Israel, not to protect Muslim countries.
He argued nations should secure themselves through their own strength rather than overseas installations.
He linked Pakistan’s recent India confrontation, Marka-e-Haq, to greater international recognition and credited Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir.
He blamed successive governments for altering school textbooks and said no administration, including the current one, had reversed those changes.