India to Pak: Tone down rhetoric, any misadventure will have painful consequences | India News

According to a PTI report, Munir made a nuclear threat during an address to the Pakistani diaspora in Florida on Saturday. “We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us,” he was quoted as saying.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said the “enemy” would not be allowed to snatch “even one drop” of water belonging to his country. And former Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto, too, issued threats to India over the Indus Waters Treaty.

On Thursday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said: ”We have seen reports regarding a continuing pattern of reckless, war-mongering and hateful comments from Pakistani leadership against India.”

Referring to the military strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir during Operation Sindoor in May, the MEA spokesperson said: “It is well known modus-operandi of the Pakistani leadership to whip up anti-India rhetoric time and again to hide their own failures.”

“Pakistan would be well-advised to temper its rhetoric as any misadventure will have painful consequences as was demonstrated recently,” he said.

Responding to Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir’s diatribe against India, New Delhi had said earlier this week that India would not give in to nuclear blackmail and underlined that it would “take all steps necessary to safeguard our national security”.

Pakistan had criticised India’s Ministry of External Affairs, accusing it of “twisting” the remarks made by Munir during his visit to the US.