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WASHINGTON, D.C<\/strong>. \u2013 In a series of highly inflammatory remarks, Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has reportedly issued direct threats against India while on a visit to the United States. The statements, which have been widely reported by media outlets in both India and Pakistan, have drawn strong reactions and are expected to heighten tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 In a series of highly inflammatory remarks, Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has reportedly issued direct threats against India while on a visit to the United States. The statements, which have been widely reported by media outlets in both India and Pakistan, have drawn strong reactions and are expected to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"yoast_head":"\n
According to various reports, Munir, during an event in Tampa, Florida, allegedly declared Kashmir to be the “jugular vein” of Pakistan and asserted that the Indus River is not the “family property” of Indians. The most startling and concerning statement was a direct threat to use missiles to destroy any dam India might construct on the Indus River. “We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with ten missiles,” he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further escalating the rhetoric, Munir reportedly issued a broader nuclear threat, stating, “We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us.” These comments have been met with alarm, as they constitute a rare instance of a nuclear threat being made from American soil.
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The incident is expected to significantly strain an already fragile relationship between India and Pakistan and will likely intensify international scrutiny of both nations’ nuclear doctrines and regional policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"