{"id":18687,"date":"2026-02-17T08:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18687"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:58:38","slug":"siraj-ul-haq-calls-khawaja-asifs-remarks-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/siraj-ul-haq-calls-khawaja-asifs-remarks-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Siraj-ul-Haq calls Khawaja Asif\u2019s remarks \u2018irresponsible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Former leader of Pakistan\u2019s Jamaat-e-Islami, Siraj-ul-Haq, has dismissed recent remarks by Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif as \u201cirresponsible,\u201d saying they should not be taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with a local media outlet, Siraj-ul-Haq said Khawaja Asif \u201cmocks his own people\u201d and lacks consistency in his statements. \u201cHe says one thing in the morning and something entirely different in the evening,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siraj-ul-Haq was referring to Khawaja Asif\u2019s recent comments in which he reportedly claimed that the former Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan did not take place and that the resistance against it could not be described as \u201cjihad.\u201d Siraj-ul-Haq said those remarks were contrary to historical reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that at the time of the Soviet intervention, Khawaja Asif\u2019s father was a member of Pakistan\u2019s central council and had taken the position that Soviet forces should be stopped beyond Torkham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siraj-ul-Haq stressed that such statements reflect Khawaja Asif\u2019s personal views and urged the media and the public not to treat them as official or credible positions of the state of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Former leader of Pakistan\u2019s Jamaat-e-Islami, Siraj-ul-Haq, has dismissed recent remarks by Pakistan\u2019s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif as \u201cirresponsible,\u201d saying they should not be taken seriously. In an interview with a local media outlet, Siraj-ul-Haq said Khawaja Asif \u201cmocks his own people\u201d and lacks consistency in his statements. \u201cHe says one thing in the morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18692,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18687\/revisions\/18692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}