'Missiles, 130 nukes aimed at you': Pakistan minister warns India of nuclear war

In an interview, Abbasi warned that if India dares to halt Pakistan's water supply by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, it should "prepare for a full-scale war".

Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not for display, he asserted, and said their locations are hidden across the country, ready to strike if provoked.

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“The military equipment we have, the missiles we have, they're not for display. Nobody knows where we have placed our nuclear weapons across the country. I say it again, these ballistic missiles, all of them are targeted at you," he warned.

After the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 people were mercilessly gunned down, India announced a series of countermeasures against Pakistan.

India has taken the decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, revoked all visas for Pakistani nationals and downgraded its diplomatic ties with Pakistan, after The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack.

Delhi's decisions mocked

Hanif Abbasi mocked Delhi’s decisions saying India is beginning to realise the harsh consequences of its actions.

Referring to the disruption caused by Pakistan shutting its airspace to India, he pointed to the chaos it triggered in Indian aviation in just two days.

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"If things were to continue like this for another 10 days, the airlines in India would go bankrupt," Abbasi said. In a tit-for-tat move, Islamabad closed its airspace to Indian carriers and threatened to suspend the 1972 Simla Agreement, which validates the Line of Control.

Further, the minister accused India of shifting the blame onto Pakistan for the Pahalgam terror attack instead of acknowledging its own security failures.

Pakistan had already begun preparing for the fallout after India's decision to suspend trade between the two countries, signalling that Islamabad was ready to counter any economic measures taken against it.

Bold claims

Abbasi's remarks come after Pakistan's defence minister Khawaja Asif too made some bold claims.

In an interview, Asif admitting that Pakistan had supported and trained terror groups for the "last three decades", he blamed the United States and the West, including Britain, for all of this.

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Pakistan has been doing the “dirty work” for the US and the West, including Britain, for three decades and suffered greatly for this mistake, he pointed out.

"If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on, following the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan would have an unimpeachable track record," Asif explained.

Asif pointed out that India "staged" the Pahalgam terror attack, which left 26 dead, to create a regional crisis targeting Pakistan. He claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba no longer exists and that he had never heard of The Resistance Front, the group responsible for the Pahalgam attack.

In his view the Lashkar is old and "does not exist". Moreover, he added that the Pakistan government has condemned the Pahalgam attack) categorically.

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