Islamabad: Pakistan’s defence minister threatened to retaliate to any Israeli nuclear strike after apparently being tricked by a fake news site into a confrontation on social media.
Khawaja Asif was responding to an invented story published on the website AWDNews and headlined: “Israeli Defense Minister: If Pakistan sends ground troops into Syria on any pretext, we will destroy this country with a nuclear attack.”
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