RAWALPINDI (Kashmir English): The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday said that any attempt to target Pakistan can trigger consequences that shall neither be geographically confined nor strategically or politically palatable for India.
The military’s media wing gave a statement in response to the Indian Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi’s provocative remarks against Pakistan during a recent interview, where he said that ‘Pakistan should decide if it desired to be part of geography and history’.
“Contrary to the delusional and hallucinational belief system and despite the omnipresent ill wishes that prevail in Hindutva-led India, Pakistan is already a country of consequence at the global level, a declared nuclear power, and an indelible part of South Asia’s geography and history,” the ISPR said.
It said that the Indian army chief’s statement reflects that the “Indian leadership has neither been able to reconcile with the very idea of Pakistan nor has it learnt the right lessons, even after the passage of eight decades. This hubristic, jingoistic, and myopic mindset has repeatedly pushed South Asia towards wars and crises.”
“Threatening a sovereign nuclear neighbour with elimination from ‘geography’ is not strategic signalling 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 military warned.
It stressed that “responsible nuclear states reflect restraint, maturity, and strategic sobriety”, rather than speaking the “language of civilisational supremacy or national erasure.”
The ISPR advised the Indian leadership “not to attempt to push South Asia towards another crisis or war whose consequences would only be devastating for the complete region and beyond”.
“India needs to reconcile with Pakistan’s salience and learn to peacefully co-exist with it. Otherwise, any attempt to target Pakistan can trigger consequences that shall neither be geographically confined nor strategically or politically palatable for India,” the military further warned.
Moreover, it added, “Indian narrative conveniently ignores India’s own historically documented record of being a harbinger of terrorism in the region, a state sponsor of terrorism, key source of regional instability, practitioner of transnational assassinations, and a hotbed of disinformation campaign across the globe.”
The ISPR further added that New Delhi’s aggressive posturing stems less from confidence and more from frustration at its inability to harm Pakistan, which has been brutally exposed during Marka-e-Haq.
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“Indian leadership would be well advised not to attempt to push South Asia towards another crisis or war whose consequences would only be devastating for the complete region and beyond.”
“India needs to reconcile with Pakistan’s salience and learn to peacefully co-exist with it. Otherwise, any attempt to target Pakistan can trigger consequences that shall neither be geographically confined nor strategically or politically palatable for India,” the statement concluded.
