New Delhi, Aug 14 (UNI) India today slammed the warmongering and hateful comments from the Pakistani leadership and warned Islamabad to temper its rhetoric as any misadventure will have painful consequences as was demonstrated by Operation Sindoor recently.
The Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, answering questions at a briefing on the anti-India statements of Pakistani Army chief Asif Munir and PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto, said: “We have seen reports regarding a continuing pattern of reckless warmongering and hateful comment from the Pakistani leadership against India.
“It is a well-known modus operandi of the Pakistani leadership to whip up anti-India rhetoric, time and again to hype their own failures,” he said.
“Pakistan would be well-advised to temper its rhetoric as any misadventure will have painful consequences as was demonstrated recently,” he warned.
India’s comments come days after Pakistani army chief Asim Munir warned of a nuclear war.“We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us,” Munir is reported to have said in comments made at a gathering in the US earlier this week.
Munir also warned of destroying any infrastructure that India builds on the Indus river water channels that could impede water flow to Pakistan. “We have no dearth of missiles. We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with 10 missiles. The Indus River is not the Indians’ family property,” he is reported to have said.
Bilawal Bhutto, former Pakistan Foreign Minister, similarly warned that if India continues to suspend the Indus Water Treaty, then Pakistan would have “no choice” but to consider war.
India has decided to keep the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance as part of punitive measures on Pakistan in the aftermath of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which Pakistani-linked terrorists killed 26 people, mostly tourists.
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, under which it attacked terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Both countries were engaged in a four-day military stand-off, which ended on May 10 with a ceasefire.
