Foreign Affairs Expert Sushant Sareen has pointed out how Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir’s nuclear threats against India as “the wet dreams of many Pakistanis,” adding that there's nothing new in this.
Sareen said the only factor that is different from Munir's previous threats is that this time he specifically talks about India building a dam on the Indus river basin and Pakistan blowing it up with missiles.
#WATCH | On Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir’s nuclear threat, Foreign Affairs Expert Sushant Sareen says, "These are the wet dreams of many Pakistanis on how they want to destroy India, threaten India. There's nothing new in this. The only new aspect is that if he makes a specific… pic.twitter.com/5eHCxFenoS
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However, the expert said Munir knows that New Delhi can strike back Islamabad in equal measure. “Surely he understands that this is a game two can play...We must understand one thing that in all the wars that we have fought between the two countries, largely neither country has targeted either civilian infrastructure or population centres,” he said, pointing out that the only exception would be the cross-border shelling in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sareen, who is the author of The Jihad Factory: Pakistan's Islamic Revolution in the Making, said if the Pakistanis are choosing to attack civilians, then India's answer would be what Mao Zedong told the US. “...All I can say is what Chairman Mao once told the Americans - he threatened the Americans that if there is a nuclear explosion, you might kill 600 million Chinese but there will still be 60 million Chinese left to build a greater China, but there will be no American left. Something similar can be said to Pakistanis - the seed of Pakistan will be destroyed but there will still be an India left to rejuvenate and regenerate and restore itself with greatness.”
Pointing out that by threatening to taken down half the world, Munir is threatening the global community, he added, “Apart from the fact that it is purile and his IQ level is that of Sheikh Rasheed and some of those characters in Pakistan, he doesn't seem to have graduated beyond that...A nuclear exchange in India or against India will destroy half the world. So, he is threatening the world by making these kinds of statements..."
The Pakistani Army on Sunday said at an event in Florida that "We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with ten missiles. The Indus river is not the Indians’ family property... We have no shortage of missiles, Alhumdulillah."
Responding to Munir, India said nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan's stock-in-trade and expressed regret that he made the remark from the soil of a friendly third country.
"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-glove with terrorist groups," MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said.
He said India will not give in to nuclear blackmail and continue to protect its national security.
