ISLAMABAD: ISPR on Sunday (17th May, 2026) while responding to Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi’s remarks made a day earlier that ‘Pakistan should decide if it desired to be part of geography and history’, reminded that his provocative statement was against a declared nuclear power.
“Contrary to the delusional and hallucinational belief system and despite the omnipresent ill wishes that prevail in Hindutva-led India, Pakistan is already a country of consequence at global level, a declared nuclear power and an indelible part of South Asia’s geography and history”, ISPR maintained.
Media Wing of Pakistan Military noted that Upendra Dwivedi’s remarks reflected that the Indian leadership had neither been able to reconcile with the very idea of Pakistan nor it has learnt the right lessons: “This hubristic, jingoistic and myopic mindset has repeatedly pushed South Asia towards wars and crises.”
ISPR further warned: “Threatening a sovereign nuclear neighbour with elimination from ‘geography’ is not strategic signalling or brinkmanship; it is sheer bankruptcy of cognitive capacities, madness and warmongering despite knowing the reality that such geographic obliteration would certainly be mutual and comprehensive…
“India needs to reconcile with Pakistan’s salience and learn to peacefully co-exist with it. Otherwise, any attempt to target Pakistan can trigger consequences that shall neither be geographically confined nor strategically or politically palatable for India...
“Indian narrative conveniently ignores India’s own historically documented record of being a harbinger of terrorism in the region, a state sponsor of terrorism, key source of regional instability, practitioner of transnational assassinations and a hotbed of disinformation campaign across the globe.“
Insinuating towards 2025 skirmish, ISPR held: “Delhi’s aggressive posturing stems less from confidence and more from frustration at its inability to harm Pakistan.”
Newspakistan.tv
Sania Jamali is based in Dubai and writes on National Politics of the region.
