Islamabad Warned Against Future Conflict by Pakistan Defence Minister
Islamabad: Two days after the Indian Army Chief warned that Pakistan could be “erased from the world map” if it continued sponsoring terrorism, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday issued a stern warning to New Delhi, saying that India would be “buried under the wreckage of its warplanes” in the event of any future military conflict.
Asif’s remarks came shortly after India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi cautioned Pakistan against any misadventure.
On Friday, Gen Dwivedi had asserted that Pakistan must stop supporting terrorism on its soil if it wished to retain its place on the world map. He added that the restraint shown by India during Operation Sindoor would not be repeated in any future conflict.
“India is fully prepared this time. We will not show the restraint we exercised during Operation Sindoor 1.0. In future actions, Pakistan will be forced to reconsider whether it wants to remain on the world map,” Gen Dwivedi said.
Separately, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh stated that Indian strikes during Operation Sindoor had destroyed or damaged at least a dozen Pakistani military aircraft, including US-origin F-16 jets. He dismissed Islamabad’s claims of Indian losses as “fanciful stories,” adding that intelligence reports confirmed damage to radars at four locations, command and control centers at two sites, runways at two locations, and hangars across three stations.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, speaking in Hyderabad on Friday, reiterated that the NDA government had repeatedly demonstrated India’s readiness to cross borders when necessary to protect its citizens and uphold national integrity—citing the 2016 surgical strikes, 2019 Balakot airstrike, and the recent Operation Sindoor.
A day earlier, Singh warned that any misadventure by Pakistan in the Sir Creek sector—a disputed 96-km tidal estuary between Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch and Pakistan—would invite a “decisive response” capable of altering “both history and geography.”
Responding sharply on social media, Asif criticized what he called provocative statements from India’s top military and political leaders. He described these remarks as a “failed attempt” to restore credibility after what he referred to as a decisive defeat in the May clashes.
“The statements of the Indian military and political leadership are a failed attempt to repair their tarnished reputation. After such a decisive defeat, with a score of 0-6, if they try again, the outcome—God willing—will be far worse for them,” he tweeted, without elaborating on the reference to “0-6.”
Operation Sindoor, launched by India on May 7 in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistani-controlled territories. The strikes led to four days of intense clashes, which ended on May 10 following a mutual understanding to cease hostilities. India has maintained that Pakistan requested an end to the military actions after its infrastructure suffered significant damage.
