Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif's admission of Islamabad's closer proximity to Beijing than Washington when the latter two “will always be at loggerheads” comes at a time when his leaders are trying to snuggle into the cosiness of the White House.

Led to a candid answer by British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan, the Minister admitted that “defence cooperation is increasing with China” because of “unreliability of other sources, like the US”.

This interview happened recently when he was in New York to participate in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session. Ironically, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, after his address at the UNGA, had a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington around the same time.

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