{"id":353388,"date":"2025-04-17T05:13:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=353388"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:45:02","slug":"pakistan-army-chief-calls-kashmir-jugular-vein-urges-diaspora-to-uphold-two-nation-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pakistan-army-chief-calls-kashmir-jugular-vein-urges-diaspora-to-uphold-two-nation-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Army chief calls Kashmir \u201cJugular Vein,\u201d urges diaspora to uphold Two-Nation Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/04\/Pakistan-Army-Chief-General-Asim-Munir-has-once-again-emphasized-Islamabads-long-standing-stance-on-Kashmir-calling-it-the-countrys-jugular-vein..jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353389\" width=\"409\" height=\"272\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has once again emphasized Islamabad\u2019s long-standing stance on Kashmir, calling it the country\u2019s \u201cjugular vein.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a gathering of overseas Pakistanis, General Munir urged them to remember and promote Pakistan\u2019s founding ideology. \u201cYou should definitely tell Pakistan\u2019s story to your children. Our forefathers thought that we are different from the Hindus in every aspect of life. Our religions, our customs, traditions, thoughts and ambitions are different. That was the foundation of the two-nation theory that was laid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reaffirming Pakistan\u2019s position on Kashmir, Munir said: \u201cOur stance is absolutely clear. It was our jugular vein, it will be our jugular vein, we will not forget it. We will not leave our Kashmiri brothers in their heroic struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also hit out at perceptions that terrorist activity was deterring foreign investment in Pakistan. \u201cDo you think terrorists can take away the destiny of the country? The 1.3 million-strong Indian Army, with all its wherewithal, if they cannot intimidate us, do you think these terrorists can subdue the armed forces of Pakistan?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Munir, who became Pakistan\u2019s army chief in 2022, also made strong remarks about separatist unrest in Balochistan, warning that the army would not allow any attempts to break the province away from the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBalochistan is Pakistan\u2019s pride, you will just take it away so easily? You won\u2019t be able to take it in 10 generations. Inshallah, we will defeat these terrorists very soon. Pakistan will not fall,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has once again emphasized Islamabad\u2019s long-standing stance on Kashmir, calling it the country\u2019s \u201cjugular vein.\u201d Addressing a gathering of overseas Pakistanis, General Munir urged them to remember and promote Pakistan\u2019s founding ideology. \u201cYou should definitely tell Pakistan\u2019s story to your children. Our forefathers thought that we are different from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":353389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[17814,19544,19543,16181,16061,19545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353392,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353388\/revisions\/353392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/353389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}