Urdu → English transcript

I will just add one small thing today, that yesterday from India’s side

the response that came, I believe it was a childish and immature response.

Legally, they neither read the document nor tried to find out its legal status,

that there is an international treaty and what its legal status is.

So yesterday I saw hollow threats,

which in Urdu are called “giddar bhapkiyaan,” empty bluster.

And the response that Pakistan has given today to those “giddar bhapkiyaan,” which

were hollow threats that have no legal, political, social, or any kind of

even any international kind of implication at all, the response Pakistan

has given today, the National Security Committee has given, it was two

notches higher, we responded twice as strongly. You go ahead,

fly your planes through the airspace — the airspace is closed for you.

The cost you will bear will be in the millions of dollars, your airline will suffer,

your economy will suffer, and in terms of trade, there is a complete shutdown.

Even through any third state, trade with India… there is no question of that at all.

Not through any other country either. Trade with India is completely shut, so your

economy will now take this hit. You will have to take this hit. Your

position was only talk, and you only had rhetoric. And I was watching Indian media.

Some of our Pakistani journalists from here, I, as Information Minister,

pay them tribute, who went on Indian media

and advocated Pakistan’s case, did it logically, with reasoning,

while all they have is a loud voice, cowardly threats, and empty…

Look, with great clarity, this is something the whole world knows: India

has been using terrorism to play the victim. We are the frontline

state against terrorism. You have been exposed, the whole world has come to know

that you are the ones who sponsor terrorism inside Pakistan, Khawaja…

The speaker mentioned Kulbhushan, we have credible evidence, legal evidence

against you that you sponsor terrorism, and today you

are using terrorism for your political advantage, so we

have fully settled scores with you, including SOT, today the National Security

Committee has done that in a very strong way, the war of narratives, again, just as

we had won in Pulwama, today as well Pakistan has gained the upper hand

in the war of narratives, and these hollow threats have been completely exposed