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Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, during his second visit to the United States in two months, issued severe threats against India at a black-tie dinner in Tampa, Florida. Speaking at an event hosted by businessman Adnan Asad, Pakistan’s honorary consul, Munir warned that if Pakistan faces an existential threat, it would “take half the world down” in a nuclear conflict.
“We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us,” Munir reportedly said, hinting at a potential nuclear war in the region.
Addressing the Indus Waters Treaty, Munir stated that Pakistan would wait for India to build a dam on the Indus River and then destroy it with missiles. “We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with 10 missiles. The Indus River is not India’s family property. We have no shortage of missiles,” he said
The Indus Waters Treaty, brokered by the World Bank in the 1960s, allocates water from three rivers in the Indus basin to Pakistan. Munir’s remarks, delivered on US soil, mark an unprecedented escalation, as it is reportedly the first time such nuclear threats against a third country have been made from the US
