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'I don't want to do this': Pak politician skips questions on safe haven to terrorists
Senior Pakistani politician Sherry Rehman first gaslit journalist Yalda Hakim for asking her about terrorism on her country's soil, then she blamed the analyst whom Hakim cited, and then she just refused to answer when Hakim persisted with her question.
In an interview with Sky News' Hakim, Rehman at one point began to ask questions instead of answering them.
When Hakim asked her about Brigade 313, a Pakistan-based umbrella organisation of jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda, Rehman instead went on a monologue about insurgencies in India. When Hakim persisted with the question, Rehman blamed the analyst as being supportive of India.
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'Most of the international analysts that you're quoting are strongly aligned with India's narrative. They tell only India's story. We haven't been able to tell this [our side of the story],' said Rehman, a Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of the Bhutto-Zardari family a former Cabinet minister.
Rehman went on to allege that India under Operation Sindoor sought to go on war with Pakistan and impose collective punishment, but Hakim pointed out that Jaish-e-Mohammed itself acknowledged that family members of its chief, Masood Azhar, were killed in an Indian airstrike, confirming that terrorists were indeed present at the site that Pakistan presented as innocuous.
And I ask the Senator about Pakistan's long history of terrorism within the country. pic.twitter.com/pOXwTPx0Bh — Yalda Hakim (@SkyYaldaHakim) June 9, 2025
When Rehman played the victim card and said that Pakistan was the biggest victim of terrorism and was waging the biggest ground war against terrorism in the world, Hakim reminded her that Pakistan had supported the Taliban and the Islamist group would have never taken over Afghanistan without Pakistan's support.
When Rehman rejected the fact and Hakim persisted with her questions, Rehman simply said, 'I don't want to do it.'
This is at least the third senior Pakistani politician who has appeared for an interview with Hakim and given away the country's links to terrorism. Firstly, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif admitted that Pakistan supported terrorism for decades and then Bilawal Bhutto, a former foreign minister, said that 'it's not a secret' that Pakistan has supported terrorism.
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