India, Jan. 9 -- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, January 9 - Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has suggested the United States should "kidnap" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him the "worst criminal of humanity" for Israel's actions in Gaza. The inflammatory remarks, made in a television interview, mark a sharp escalation in rhetoric from a senior official of a nuclear-armed state.

In an interview with a Pakistani news channel, Khawaja Asif condemned the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. "He is the biggest criminal of humanity. The world has not seen a bigger criminal," Asif said of Netanyahu. The minister stated that the U.S. should kidnap the Israeli leader, adding that even Turkey could do it and that Pakistanis were "...