“Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir, during a US visit, threatened to target Mukesh Ambani’s Jamnagar refinery — the world’s largest — if conflict with India erupts.
Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir (photo:X/Asim Munir)
After making nuclear threats against India, Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir issued a warning to target India’s economic infrastructure in the event of an impending conflict.
Munir, in his address in the US’ Tampa, Munir named Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat — the world’s largest single-site refining complex – at a private dinner in Tampa, Florida.
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Referring to an earlier online post, he noted: “Ek tweet karwaya tha with Surah Fil and a picture of (the industrialist) Mukesh Ambani to show them what we will do the next time.” He then spelled out a war plan: “We’ll start from India’s East, where they have located their most valuable resources, and then move westwards.”
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Pakistan urges India to resume the Indus Waters Treaty
Munir said he had personally authorized the tweet during recent hostilities “to show them what we will do the next time,” according to media reports based on accounts from attendees at a closed-door event.
Hours back, Pakistan urged India to resume the Indus Waters Treaty, which New Delhi put in abeyance in May following the Pahalgam terror attack.
Islamabad welcomed a Court of Arbitration ruling that upholds its right to unrestricted use of the Western Rivers and restricts India’s hydropower projects strictly to the treaty’s provisions. The verdict comes amid rising tensions and India’s boycott of the arbitration process.
In a statement on Monday, the Foreign Office said that Pakistan is committed to the full implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty and also expects India to immediately resume the normal functioning of the treaty.
Asim Munir, Bilawal Bhutto issue provocative remarks targeting India
A day after Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir issued a nuclear threat to India during an event in the US, Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto has called on Pakistani citizens to unite against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing India of damaging Pakistan and warning of war if New Delhi continues to suspend the Indus Water Treaty.
Bhutto, while speaking at an event, asked people ”to unite against Prime Minister Modi, because of the damage India did to Pakistan.”
“If Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces an attack on Indus, he attacks our history, our culture and our civilisation,” Bilawal was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune.
Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir has, during his ongoing visit to the United States, said that Islamabad will defend its water rights “at all costs” if India proceeds with dam construction on the Indus River.
Further, Munir repeated his anti-India rhetoric, describing Kashmir as Pakistan’s “jugular vein” stating that it is not India’s internal matter but an unresolved international issue, Pakistan-based media outlet ARY News reported on Monday.
“We will wait for India to build a dam, and when they do so, we will destroy it,” Munir told members of the Pakistani-American community in Tampa, Florida.
At the black-tie dinner in Washington, DC, hosted by Adnan Asad, Pakistan’s honorary consul in Tampa, Munir told the gathering that the Indus River “is not the Indians’ family property,” adding that Islamabad has “no shortage of resources to undo the Indian designs to stop the river,” the Dawn reported on Monday.
How did India respond?
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) slammed Asim Munir’s recent anti-India remarks, calling Pakistan ‘an irresponsible state with nuclear weapons’ and adding that ‘nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s stock in trade.’ “Our attention has been drawn to remarks reportedly made by the Pakistani chief of army staff while on a visit to the United States. Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s stock in trade,” MEA said in an official statement. Earlier, Munir had reportedly openly warned of a ‘nuclear war’ from US soil. He threatened to take down ‘half the world’ if his country faced an existential threat in a future war with India.
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