{"id":73442,"date":"2025-05-07T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=73442"},"modified":"2025-05-07T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:09:26","slug":"pakistan-may-consider-striking-indian-water-infrastructure-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-may-consider-striking-indian-water-infrastructure-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan may consider striking Indian water infrastructure: Defense Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s Defense Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/khawaja-asif-warns-india-could-launch-military-strike-anywhere-along-loc\/\">Khawaja Asif<\/a> has said on Wednesday that the situation with India remained tense, warning that targeting Indian water bodies could be considered a strategic response if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters outside Parliament House in Islamabad, Asif stressed that the conflict had not abated and was &#8220;serious and troubling&#8221;. He confirmed that Pakistan had responded befittingly to Indian aggression, stressing that India had initiated hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is far from over; it is extremely serious,&#8221; Asif said. &#8220;A response was inevitable after the attack on Neelum Jhelum. In the event of further escalation and strategic consensus, targeting Indian water bodies could become a viable option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Pakistan was not facing any international pressure in the ongoing standoff and affirmed that the country reserves the right to defend itself against any aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan&#8217;s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has said on Wednesday that the situation with India remained tense, warning that targeting Indian water bodies could be considered a strategic response if necessary. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament House in Islamabad, Asif stressed that the conflict had not abated and was &#8220;serious and troubling&#8221;. He confirmed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73443,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73442\/revisions\/73443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}