The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday warned that any attempt to target Pakistan will trigger consequences that would neither remain geographically confined, nor be strategically or politically palatable for India.
Rejecting recent remarks by Indian Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi, who said Pakistan should decide it is desires to be part of geography and history,” the military’s media wing said that contrary to the “delusional and hallucinational belief system” of Hindutva-led India, Pakistan is already a globally significant country, a declared nuclear power and an indelible part of South Asia.
The ISPR further said the Indian official’s statement showed that the Indian leadership had neither reconciled with the idea of Pakistan, nor learnt any lessons over the past eight decades. Such a “hubristic, jingoistic and myopic mindset” had repeatedly pushed South Asia toward wars and crises, it warned.
According to the ISPR, threatening a sovereign nuclear state with elimination from “geography” was not strategic signaling or brinkmanship, but reflected “bankruptcy of cognitive capacities, madness and warmongering.” It said India was fully aware that any such geographic obliteration would be mutual and comprehensive.
The military’s media wing noted that responsible nuclear states demonstrated restraint, maturity and strategic sobriety instead of using the language of “civilizational supremacy or national erasure.” It said the Indian narrative ignored India’s “historically documented record” as a source of regional instability, a sponsor of terrorism, a practitioner of transnational assassinations, and a center of global disinformation campaigns.
The ISPR declared New Delhi’s aggressive posture stemmed less from confidence and more from frustration over its inability to harm Pakistan, as exposed during Marka-e-Haq.
The ISPR concluded its statement by warning the Indian leadership against pushing South Asia toward another crisis or war, saying the consequences would be devastating for the entire region and beyond. It said India needed to reconcile with Pakistan’s significance and learn to coexist peacefully with it.