‘If India tries to stage any false flag operation, we will take it to Kolkata,’ Khawaja Asif says

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Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif. File

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif. File | Photo Credit: Reuters

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) warned India that it would respond with a onslaught successful Kolkata to immoderate “future misadventures.” “If India tries to signifier immoderate mendacious emblem cognition this time, past God-willingly, we volition instrumentality it to Kolkata,” Mr. Asif said portion talking to reporters astatine Sialkot, immoderate 130 kilometers from Lahore.

He claimed that determination are reports that a false-flag cognition has been designed done their ain men oregon done the Pakistanis successful their detention by laying down immoderate bodies determination and saying “they were terrorists and had done truthful and so.” He, however, did not supply immoderate grounds successful enactment of his claim.

On Thursday (April 2, 2026), Mr. Asif said that Pakistan's effect to immoderate onslaught would beryllium “swift, calibrated, and decisive.”

He was responding to the remarks by his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, who earlier said that immoderate “misadventure” from India's neighbour successful the prevailing concern would invitation an “unprecedented and decisive” action.

The Pahalgam onslaught that took spot connected April 22 past twelvemonth resulted successful a four-day struggle betwixt the 2 countries.

Published - April 05, 2026 06:34 p.m. IST

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