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In a sharp escalation of rhetoric, Pakistan Army main Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir connected Saturday (October 18, 2025) warned India of a “decisive response” to adjacent a insignificant provocation, saying determination is nary abstraction for warfare successful a “nuclearised environment”.
Army Chief Asim Munir was addressing a graduation ceremonial of passing retired service cadets astatine the premier Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul astatine Abbottabad successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“I counsel and firmly caution India’s subject enactment that determination is nary abstraction for warfare successful a nuclearised environment,” helium said.
“We volition ne'er beryllium intimidated, not coerced by rhetoric and volition respond decisively to adjacent a insignificant provocation without immoderate qualms,” the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) said.
Referring to the caller subject struggle betwixt India and Pakistan, Field Marshal Munir claimed that his country’s equipped forces had demonstrated “remarkable professionalism” and “far-reaching capabilities” by “neutralising” each threats and emerged “victorious” against a “numerically superior adversary”.
India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan successful retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.
India and Pakistan reached an knowing connected May 10 to extremity the struggle aft 4 days of aggravated cross-border drone and rocket strikes, pursuing nonstop talks betwixt the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the 2 militaries.
Field Marshal Munir besides alleged India of utilizing coercion arsenic a limb to destabilise Pakistan, saying a fistful of terrorists cannot harm Pakistan and warned that each “proxies” utilizing Afghan ungraded would beryllium “raised to dust”, successful an evident notation to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The Army main besides urged India to settee “core issues” arsenic per planetary norms, an evident notation to the Kashmir dispute, portion reiterating Pakistan’s committedness to supply “moral and diplomatic support” to the radical of Jammu and Kashmir.
Describing Pakistan arsenic a peace-loving country, Munir said it enjoyed beardown relations with large powers, including the US and China.
At the ceremony, cadets from respective affable countries, including Malaysia, Nepal, Palestine, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Yemen, Mali, Maldives and Nigeria, besides graduated.
Field Marshal Munir congratulated them and lauded the PMA’s relation arsenic a “cornerstone of subject excellence and planetary camaraderie”.
