India Won't Give In To Nuclear Blackmail: MEA's Response On Munir's Threat
'We will continue to take all steps necessary to safeguard our national security,' the MEA statement said.
India has already made it clear that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Monday following Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir's nuclear threat from the US soil.
"We will continue to take all steps necessary to safeguard our national security," the MEA statement said. The post was shared by Randhir Jaiswal, official spokesperson at the Ministry of External Affairs, on X.
In an address to the Pakistani diaspora in Florida's Tampa, Munir reportedly made the nuclear threat in case his country faced an existential threat in a future war with India. "We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we'll take half the world down with us," media reports quoted him as saying.
"Our attention has been drawn to remarks reportedly made by the Pakistan Chief of Army Staff while on a visit to the United States. Nuclear saber-rattling is Pakistan's stock-in-trade," the MEA responded in a statement.
"The international community can draw its own conclusions on the irresponsibility inherent in such remarks, which also reinforce the well-held doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military is hand-in-love with terrorists groups," it added.
"It is also regrettable that these remarks should have been made from the soil of a friendly third country," the statement said.
Munir is on his second official visit to the US after a gap of one and a half months, that marks a new dimension in Pakistan-US relations. During his official visit to the US, Munir has engaged in high-level interactions with senior political and military leadership, as well as members of the Pakistani diaspora, the Pakistani army said in a statement.
