‘India must come to terms with the importance of Pakistan and learn to coexist peacefully with it,’ says army
Chief Marshal of Defense Force Asim Munir, Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf attend a ceremony at GHQ in Rawalpindi marking the completion of one year of Pakistan’s victory at Marka-e-Haq. Photo: ISPR
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday criticized the remarks of the Indian Chief of Army Staff (COAS), saying the statement reflected a “chauvinistic and myopic mindset” and warned of a push by “South Asia towards wars and crises”.
In a statement, the ISPR said the Indian army chief made a “provocative statement” in a recent interview that “Pakistan should decide whether it wants to be a part of geography and history.”
The military’s media wing said that, contrary to what it described as a “delusional and hallucinatory belief system” and “despite the pervasive ill-wishes prevalent in Hindutva-ruled India”, Pakistan was already “a globally significant country, a declared nuclear power and an indelible part of South Asian geography and history”.
“The statement reflects that Indian leaders have not been able to come to terms with the very idea of Pakistan nor have they learned the right lessons even after eight decades,” the statement said.
The ISPR said the “prideful, chauvinistic and myopic mentality” had repeatedly pushed South Asia towards wars and crises.
“Threatening a sovereign nuclear neighbor with geographic elimination is not a strategic signal or brinkmanship; it is pure failure of cognitive abilities, madness and warmongering,” the statement said.
The military’s media wing added that any “geographic obliteration would certainly be mutual and global.”
“Responsible nuclear states demonstrate restraint, maturity and strategic sobriety. They do not speak the language of civilizational supremacy or national obliteration,” he said.
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The statement further said that the Indian narrative ignores “India’s historically documented past as a precursor of terrorism in the region, a state sponsor of terrorism, a key source of regional instability, a practitioner of transnational assassinations and a hotbed of disinformation campaigns across the world.”
According to the ISPR, India’s “aggressive posture” stemmed “less from confidence than from frustration at its inability to harm Pakistan”, which was brutally “revealed during the Marka-e-Haq”.
The military’s media wing said Indian leaders “would do well not to attempt to push South Asia into another crisis or war whose consequences would only be devastating for the entire region and beyond.”
“India must come to terms with the importance of Pakistan and learn to coexist peacefully with it,” the statement said.
The ISPR warned that “any attempt targeting Pakistan may trigger consequences which will be neither geographically limited nor strategically or politically acceptable to India.”
