Overview

• In a Samaa TV interview, Khawaja Asif said the chance of war with India is real and predicted Pakistan would achieve a “better result.”
• He claimed India was never a united nation except briefly under Aurangzeb and cast Pakistan as rallying together in a conflict.
• Asif asserted that previously neutral countries now back Islamabad, a claim not corroborated in the reports.
• He linked what he called Indian provocations to the Bihar elections and said Narendra Modi’s popularity has fallen since Pakistan’s Operation Bunyan Al Marsoos, offering no evidence.
• Asif’s repeated claim that Pakistan downed six Indian jets during May’s Operation Sindoor remains unverified and is denied by New Delhi, which says the four-day exchange ended with a May 10 ceasefire after the Pahalgam attack.