Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday warned India that it will reply with a strike in Kolkata to any “future misadventures.”
Chatting with reporters in his hometown of Sialkot, about 130 km from Lahore, Asif mentioned, “If India tries to stage any false flag operation this time, then God-willingly, we are going to take it to Kolkata.”
He claimed experiences recommend a false-flag operation may very well be carried out utilizing their very own males or Pakistanis in detention, “by laying down some our bodies someplace and saying ‘they have been terrorists and had achieved so and so.’”
Asif didn’t present any proof to assist this declare. On Thursday, he had mentioned that Pakistan’s response to any assault can be “swift, calibrated, and decisive.”
His remarks got here after India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh warned that any “misadventure” from Pakistan would set off an “unprecedented and decisive” response.
The tensions date again to the Pahalgam assault on April 22 final yr, which led to a four-day battle between India and Pakistan.
