{"id":355654,"date":"2025-08-11T18:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=355654"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:04:10","slug":"india-hits-back-at-pak-army-chiefs-nuclear-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-hits-back-at-pak-army-chiefs-nuclear-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"India hits back at Pak Army Chief\u2019s nuclear threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><br>India follows a declared No First Use (NFU) policy, committing to use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Pakistan, however, does not follow NFU and keeps policy deliberately ambiguous in mind India\u2019s conventional military superiority&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"872\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/08\/Ministry-of-External-Affairs-spokesperson-Randhir-Jaiswal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-355424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/08\/Ministry-of-External-Affairs-spokesperson-Randhir-Jaiswal.jpg 872w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/08\/Ministry-of-External-Affairs-spokesperson-Randhir-Jaiswal-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/08\/Ministry-of-External-Affairs-spokesperson-Randhir-Jaiswal-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/08\/Ministry-of-External-Affairs-spokesperson-Randhir-Jaiswal-696x469.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/08\/Ministry-of-External-Affairs-spokesperson-Randhir-Jaiswal-624x420.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ndia on Monday slammed Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for his latest remarks on Islamabad\u2019s \u201cnuclear prowess,\u201d asserting that New Delhi would not yield to \u201cnuclear blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal urged the international community to note the \u201cirresponsibility emanating from such threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndia has made it clear it will not give in to nuclear blackmail. We will continue all necessary steps to safeguard our national security\u2026 Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan\u2019s stock-in-trade,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warning about the risks of Pakistan\u2019s nuclear arsenal, he added: \u201cIt reinforces doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military works hand in glove with terrorist groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt reinforces doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military works hand in glove with terrorist groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaiswal called it \u201cregrettable\u201d that such statements were made from the soil of a \u201cfriendly third country\u201d \u2014 the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday in Tampa, Florida, Munir reportedly said, \u201cIf we go down, we will take down half the world.\u201d He also threatened India over the Indus Waters Treaty: \u201cWe will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with 10 missiles.\u201d This was Munir\u2019s second visit to the US in under two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Munir\u2019s second US visit in less than two months<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India and Pakistan both maintain nuclear arsenals developed in the backdrop of their complex security environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India follows a declared No First Use (NFU) policy, committing to use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Pakistan, however, does not follow NFU and keeps policy deliberately ambiguous in mind India\u2019s conventional military superiority&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India follows a declared No First Use (NFU) policy, committing to use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Pakistan, however, does not follow NFU and keeps policy deliberately ambiguous in mind India\u2019s conventional military superiority&nbsp; ndia on Monday slammed Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for his latest remarks on Islamabad\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":355424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,14929,15084,36],"tags":[16742,16061],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355654"}],"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=355654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355662,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355654\/revisions\/355662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/355424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}