RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army on Sunday advised India to reconcile with Pakistan’s salience and learn to peacefully co-exist with it; otherwise, any attempt to target Pakistan could trigger consequences that would neither be geographically confined nor strategically or politically palatable for India.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), while responding strongly to a statement issued by the Indian Army chief, said the statement reflected that the Indian leadership had neither been able to reconcile with the very idea of Pakistan nor it had learnt the right lessons, even after passage of eight decades.
“This hubristic, jingoistic and myopic mindset has repeatedly pushed South Asia towards wars and crises,” the Pakistan Army media wing pointed out. It noted that the Indian COAS gave a provocative statement during a recent interview that “Pakistan should decide if it desired to be part of geography and history”.
In response, the ISPR said: “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 global level, a declared nuclear power and an indelible part of South Asia’s geography and history.” The Pakistan Army told the Indian leadership that threatening a sovereign nuclear neighbour with elimination from “geography” was 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.
Responsible nuclear states reflect restraint, maturity and strategic sobriety. “They do not speak the language of civilisational supremacy or national erasure,” the statement said.
Further rebuffing the statement of India’s army chief, the ISPR pointed out that the 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.
“Delhi’s aggressive posturing stems less from confidence and more from frustration at its inability to harm Pakistan, that has been brutally exposed during Marka-e-Haq,” the Pakistan Army ‘s media wing reminded the adversary’s leadership. The 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, the ISPR statement maintained.
