The Israeli defence ministry responded the following day to say the story was “entirely false”, prompting officials in Pakistan to warn against ministers from a nuclear-armed state trying to conduct diplomacy by Twitter.以色列国防部次日回应称,这条报道“纯属虚构”。这件事促使一些巴基斯坦官员反对Asif,因为他作为一个拥有核武装国家的国防部长试图通过Twitter展开外交。