India criticizes Pakistan military director’s reported nuclear threats
(MENAFN) India has strongly condemned remarks reportedly made by Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Asim Munir, in which he allegedly threatened nuclear retaliation in the event of an existential conflict with India. Calling the comments “irresponsible,” New Delhi’s Foreign Ministry stressed that the country would not yield to such intimidation.
According to a report by ThePrint, Munir made the remarks during a private dinner in Tampa, Florida, attended by select guests and held under strict no-recording rules. He was quoted as saying, “We are a nuclear nation, if we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us,” and used a car-truck collision analogy to depict India-Pakistan relations.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the statements highlight long-standing concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear command and its ties to terrorist groups, adding it was “regrettable” they were made on the soil of a friendly third country.
Munir is currently visiting the US for the retirement dinner of US CENTCOM Chief General Michael Kurilla, marking his second trip to the country this year. In June, he met Donald Trump privately and suggested the US president deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for mediating between India and Pakistan — a claim New Delhi has consistently rejected.
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