‘Geographic obliteration would be mutual’: Pakistan fires back at India army chief

Pakistan has responded to “provocative” remarks by India’s army chief, warning that such comments could result in an escalation of tensions between the two nuclear-armed countries.

India’s General Upendra Dwivedi last week accused Pakistan of harboring “terrorists” and threatened to take strong military action against the country.

Dwivedi said that it is up to Islamabad to decide whether it wants to be “part of geography or history.”

In response, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday cautioned India’s top brass against making such comments, warning New Delhi that war with Pakistan would have wide-ranging consequences.

The ISPR slammed the Indian general for his “warmongering” remark.

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Dwivedi’s remarks are reflective of his “hubristic, jingoistic and myopic” mindset, the ISPR said, adding that mindsets like these have repeatedly pushed South Asia into wars and crises.

“Threatening a sovereign nuclear neighbor with elimination from ‘geography’ is not strategic signaling or brinkmanship; it is sheer bankruptcy of cognitive capacities, madness, and warmongering despite knowing the reality that such geographic obliteration would certainly be mutual and comprehensive,” the ISPR noted.

It added that “any attempt to target Pakistan can trigger consequences that shall neither be geographically confined nor strategically or politically palatable for India.”

“India needs to reconcile with Pakistan’s salience and learn to peacefully co-exist with it,” it further added.

In the meantime, growing hostility between the two countries following a deadly attack last year in Indian-controlled Kashmir prompted global calls for the de-escalation of tensions.

Kashmir’s Pahalgam attack left 26 civilians, predominantly Hindu tourists, dead. Islamabad strongly rejects India’s accusation of being involved in the attack. An international fact-checking probe was launched to find the perpetrators of the deadly attack that triggered the rising tensions.

The nuclear-armed neighbors have already fought four wars since the 1947 partition from Great Britain.

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