This is what happens from fake news. I actually think that fake news eventually might blow up the whole world rather than anything true.
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Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, wrote a frightening Twitter …
Pakistani Defense Minister Makes Nuclear Threat Against Israel After Fake News Provocation
Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif responded to a made-up article with a real-life scare.
Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
Pakistan’s defense minister,
Khawaja Muhammad Asif, wrote a frightening Twitter post in response to a
fake news article stating that Israel would attack Pakistan with
nuclear weapons.
“Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming pak role in
Syria against Daesh,” Asif wrote on Twitter Friday, referring to the
Islamic State. “Israel forgets Pakistan is a Nuclear state too.”
According to The New York Times, Asif appeared to be responding to a fake news article published earlier in the week on awdnews.com titled,
“Israeli Defense Minister: If Pakistan send ground troops into Syria on
any pretext, we will destroy this country with a nuclear attack.”
Pakistan and Israel both have nuclear arsenals.
Asif appeared to accept the
article at face value, according to the Times. The story doesn’t mention
Israel’s current defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, and instead
quotes a former minister, Moshe Yaalon, who resigned in May.
Israel’s Defense Ministry
responded to Asif’s tweet, denying the former Israeli defense minister
made the statement cited in the fake news article.
“The
statement attributed to fmr Def Min Yaalon re Pakistan was never said,”
the Defense Ministry wrote in its official Twitter account. “Reports
referred to by the Pakistani Def Min are entirely false.”
Asif did not immediately respond on Twitter.
This isn’t the first time
Pakistan’s defense minister has made a nuclear threat. In a September
interview, Asif said he would be open to using nuclear weapons against India.
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