Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif announced that the country's relations with India have become so strained that there is no choice left but to initiate large-scale military actions.
“For us, there is no option left but to go to war. We must respond to them in the same way and with the same intensity,” the minister said in an interview on one of Pakistan's national television channels.
In response to a journalist's question about how certain a war is, the defense minister firmly replied: “Of course, there is no option left but war. There is no room for doubt in this.”
It is worth noting that on May 8, Pakistan and India conducted one of the largest and longest aerial battles in modern aviation history. This battle involved 25 fighter jets and lasted for more than an hour. Neither side violated the other's airspace, and the strikes were carried out from a distance of over 160 kilometers.
A senior source from Pakistan's security service, speaking with CNN, emphasized that since 2019, both sides have adopted a cautious approach towards each other's airspace. In 2019, a Pakistani fighter jet shot down an Indian MiG-21 aircraft.
In the current battle, both countries struck each other with "air-to-air" missiles while remaining within their own airspace. This situation demonstrates the severity of the circumstances between the two nations and the high level of caution being exercised.
