Pakistan can respondto any aggression: Chohan

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Culture and Information Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan has said Pakistan is a peace-loving nation and no one in the country right from Prime Minister Imran Khan to Superstar Reema Khan wants war.

“We always wanted good relations with our neighbours, but everyone must know that our desire for peace should never be mistaken as our weakness,” he said while giving reply to the Indian warmongering and aggressive designs amid pro-Pakistan and pro-Pak Army slogans by a congregation of journalists and artistes at a special seminar on solidarity with the Pak Army in the wake of present Indian attitude.

Addressing the seminar organised by the Lahore Press Club’s Culture Committee on Sunday evening, the minister said, “Pakistan is an atomic power and we haven’t made the nuclear bombs to use them on Shab-e-Baraat or on wedding celebrations. However, if the need be, Pakistan has every capability to meet any kind of aggression from any quarters.”

He warned India that Pakistan had developed such nuclear devises which were very small in size but were very much devastating in their impact and they were enough to wipe out the enemy forces within no time.

He added as the use of nuclear weapons on other country’s land was prohibited, Pakistan had developed such nuclear weapons which could be thrown within a few feet of its own territory near the border but the impact on the enemy would be beyond their imagination.

He warned India to stop playing dirty and start behaving. He added that India should stop staging dramas like Pulwama and sending the characters like Kulbhushan. He said that Indians were sick because they blamed everything on Pakistan for every bad act of their own people. He said Pakistan Army was the best army in the world and the biggest protector of the motherland and its people. He added that the Army, the entire nation, the journalists and the artistes were all the same page for the protection of their motherland.

He praised the Pakistani artistes who gathered at the Lahore Press Club to show solidarity with the Pakistani armed forces. The artistes who attended the event included Reema Khan, Meera, Shahida Mini, Resham, Waris Baig and Rashid Mehmood.