 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday rejected an Afghan minister's request that the names of Pakistani missiles be changed because they coincided with those of former Afghan rulers.
| "How we gonna change 'em to the names of Pak heroes? We ain't got none!" |
Pakistan Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told the BBC that Islamabad could not fulfill the request because Pakistan and Afghanistan shared a common history and hence common heroes.
| "So we'll just have to use theirs. They ain't got no missiles, so they ain't usin' 'em!" |
On Wednesday, Afghan Information Minister Syed Makhdoom Raheen had requested the Pakistani government not to give its military missiles former afghan rulers' names. "Education and culture institutes should be named after Afghan leaders like Shahabud Din Ghauri, Mehmood Ghaznavi and Ahmad Shah Abdali instead of naming destructive devices after them," he said. Three Pakistani missiles are named Ghauri, Ghaznavi and Abdali. |