Defence Minister condemns Canadian parliamentarian's remarks against Pakistani military leadership.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Monday strongly condemned Canadian parliamentarian's remarks against Pakistan's military leadership and urged the Canadian government to take notice of irresponsible statement.

Speaking in the National Assembly he said, 'Pakistan and military leadership was

criticized by a Canadian parliamentarian, which is deplorable, the Canadian

government should take action on irresponsible statement."

He said that a protest had also been registered through diplomatic channel against the remarks but it was necessary to debate the issue in Pakistan's Parliament too.

Pakistan is enjoying cordial ties with Canada but the remarks against

the Pakistan state and its institution cannot be tolerated, he said.

He alleged that PTI chief Imran Khan is involved in an anti-state campaign outside the country.

He said that the government in Pakistan had been changed through legal process and

according to the constitution.

The Minister said that change of government had also been endorsed by Pakistan judiciary and the majority supported the move.

He said that, in the incident of Isamophobia in Canada, Muslims from 2017 to 2022 were targeted and killed in various incidents.'During the last five years, Canada is leading in the cases of Isamophobia in G-7 countries.

The human rights violations are on the rise in Canada' he added.

He expressed displeasure over the silence in human rights violations in Indian Illegally

Occupied Jammu Kashmir, Palestine and against the Muslim living in India.

The Defence Minister said what an irony it is that western countries always exercise selective sense of justice and look aside when there is a matter of the rights of Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine and Myanmar.

He said it was unfortunate, when the issue of targeting Muslim come, the international human rights institutions showed criminal silence.

Khawaja Asif said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership had divided the Pakistan society and overseas Pakistanis.

'9.5 million Overseas Pakistanis are assets of the country' he added.

He alleged that PTI chief Imran Khan had promoted hate inside Pakistan and outside Pakistan. He said that all the country's institutions had been used by Imran Khan for political victimization.

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