Her remarks came after Asif spoke about how Jewish identity is determined by maternal lineage in Judaism. Asif had written the post on X, allegedly referring to Imran’s sons.
Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of imprisoned former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan , sarcastically responded to the country’s defence minister Khwaja Asif on Friday for “undermining her sons”.
“If your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish, regardless of your father’s religion.
Asif said that, in mainstream Judaism, a person’s Jewish identity is determined through their mother’s lineage. In the Jewish tradition, maternity is a biological certainty, whereas paternity is a matter of chance,” he said.
“Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband: how much longer will Britain remain silent? “His sons, my two boys — Sulaiman and Kasim — are British citizens.
Goldsmith said in a post on X. “For three years, the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health,” she wrote. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls,” she said, appealing to the UK government to intervene.
Responding to Asif’s post on X, Jemima agreed that his statement was “right”. She added that the same principle meant she was not recognised as “Jewish by the Jewish community”. “As ever, in attempting to undermine my sons, Pakistan’s Defence Minister has scored an embarrassing own goal,” she said.
