While its military tactics might not be that strong, Pakistan is certainly good at frivolous rhetorics and big statements. This is something that has been seen regularly over the years and of late too when Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir casually said that they would wipe out half the world with nukes, if they are faced with threat.

India has strongly criticised Islamabad for making such “reckless, war-like and hateful statements”, describing it as a familiar tactic used by them to stir anti-India sentiment and distract from its own domestic problems. New Delhi also shared its take on the Hague-based Court of Arbitration for questioning move to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty following the Pahalgam terror attack.

During the weekly press briefing, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “We have seen reports of a continuing pattern of reckless, war-like and hateful remarks from Pakistan’s leadership against India. This is a well-known strategy often employed by them to deflect attention from their internal shortcomings.”

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MEA spokesperson Jaiswal underlined that Pakistan would do well to tone down its rhetoric, as any misadventure will lead to painful consequences, as was recently demonstrated.

comments were made in response to statements by Pakistan’s Army Chief, General Asim Munir, during his visit to the United States. Munir had warned that Pakistan would never allow India to block the flow of the Indus River and would defend its water rights “at all costs,” even threatening to destroy any dam India might construct.

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Recently, the Pakistan Army Chief had said, “We will wait for India to build a dam, and once they do, we will destroy it… The Indus River is not India’s private property.” The comments were made during his address in Tampa, Florida, when he also made the nuclear threat to wipe out half of the world.

“Nuclear threats are a regular feature of Pakistan’s rhetoric. The international community can judge for itself the irresponsibility of such statements, which also raise serious concerns about the reliability of nuclear command and control in a country where the military works closely with terrorist organisations,” the MEA spokesperson noted.

“It is unfortunate that such statements were made on the soil of a friendly third country. India has already made it clear that it will not succumb to nuclear blackmail. We will continue to take all necessary measures to protect our national security,” Jaiswal added.

Can Indus Water Treaty be ended: What happened at Court of Arbitration?

In two rulings issued on June 27 and August 8, the World Bank-appointed Court of Arbitration, whose authority India has rejected and whose hearings it has boycotted, stated that the Indus Water Treaty can only be ended if both India and Pakistan agree. Pakistan’s government welcomed the decisions and misconstrued as a win.

Following this, Islamabad called on India to reinstate the treaty, signed in 1960.