Asim Munir is going to visit America once again.
Asim Munir is going to visit America once again.
Yashwant Bhaskar
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Aug 07, 2025, 04:26 PM IST
Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir went on a five-day visit to Pakistan in June this year. ... Pakistani Army Chief and Field Marshal Asim Munir is going to visit America once again.
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Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir threatens to bomb dam if India builds it on Indus River
Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir warned that his country could resort to nuclear weapons if India proceeds with dam construction on the Indus River and if it faced an existential threat in a future conflict with India. Read here read more In an unusually blunt warning delivered on US soil, Pakistan's Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir suggested his country would be prepared to unleash missile strikes and even escalate to nuclear conflict if India proceeds with dam construction on the Indus River. Speaking at a black-tie dinner in Tampa hosted by businessman Adnan Asad, Pakistan's honorary consul, Munir said that the river 'is not the Indians' family property' and warned that Islamabad has 'no shortage of missiles", al-Hamdulillah [praise be to God], the Print reported. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD He went further, issuing an apocalyptic caution about Pakistan's nuclear posture. 'We are a nuclear nation,' Munir said. 'If we think we are going down, we'll take half the world down with us.' The remarks came for the first time a Pakistani military leader has publicly delivered such a threat against India while abroad and particularly from within the United States, raising concerns about the volatility of South Asia's already tense security environment. While dam construction on the Indus has long been a source of friction between the nuclear-armed rivals, Munir's explicit linkage of water disputes to potential missile and nuclear strikes underscores how resource competition could trigger far broader geopolitical consequences. Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir who is visiting Washington for the second time since the recent four-day conflict with India, the Pakistan Army said on Sunday. In an official statement, the army confirmed that the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) is on an official trip to the United States. During his visit, General Munir held high-level meetings with senior US political and military leaders, as well as members of the Pakistani diaspora. Details about the duration of his stay or the exact date of his arrival were not disclosed. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD While in Tampa, Munir attended the retirement ceremony of outgoing US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Michael E. Kurilla. He also participated in the Change of Command Ceremony, where Admiral Brad Cooper took over as the new CENTCOM commander. He also met with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, where matters of mutual professional interest were discussed. He extended an invitation to General Caine to visit Pakistan, it added. With inputs from agencies
Time of India
43 minutes ago
- Time of India
'India like Mercedes, Pakistan dump truck': Asim Munir makes odd analogy; inadvertently admits vast gap
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Between expansive threats against India from US soil and bragging about Pakistan's oil and mineral wealth that would lift the country from a morass, Pakistan's military chief embarrassed himself and his country by inadvertently admitting where it currently stands vis-a-vis India -- in the pits. "India is shining a Mercedes coming on a highway like Ferrari, but we are a dump truck full of gravel. If the truck hits the car, who is going to be the loser?" Munir reportedly said at a Pakistani community event in Tampa, Florida. Munir's "crude analogy" as he himself put it, drew peals of laughter on social media for its description of Pakistan, with jokes about the dump truck breaking down or overturning even before it got the Merc. Munir also talked up the Pakistani diaspora -- sections of which allied to incarcerated PTI leader Imran Khan are protesting his visit -- borrowing freely from former Indian prime minister Vajpayee quote that immigrating to US is not a "brain drain but a brain gain." With strong partnerships growing with the US, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and China, and with 64% of its population being dynamic youth, Pakistan's future is bright, he said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like The Best Method for a Flat Stomach After 50 (It's Genius!) Lulutox Undo Impoverished by decades of military spending on borrowed money and with little to offer to the world in terms of trade, Pakistan is banking on its purported oil discoveries and mineral wealth, which foreign grifters are eyeing with the promise of economic manna for the country. Pakistan's bilateral trade with US currently stands at around $ 10 billion compared to India's $ 135 billion, but Munir is pitching the country's purported oil and mineral wealth, first promised by prime minister Z.A. Bhutto 50 years ago and never realized, to win back US interest. While Munir was speaking at the ballroom of the Hyatt in Tampa, dissidents allied to Pakistan's incarcerated PTI leader protested outside. They have called for similar protests in Brussels, Belgium, where Munir is headed to on Sunday.
Time of India
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Pak army chief threatens India from US soil; makes shocking nuke threat
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Emboldened by the Trump White House's support, Pakistan's de facto military ruler has threatened to destroy any infrastructure India builds that could impede water flow to Pakistan, and warned that as a nuclear power, it will take half the world down with it if it faces an existential crisis. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now "We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with ten missiles," Munir reportedly said at an event in Tampa, Florida, adding, 'The Indus river is not the Indians' family property... We have no shortage of missiles, Alhumdulillah.' Munir is on his second visit to the US in two months after a June 18 White House luncheon with President Trump during which he recommended a Nobel Prize for the MAGA supremo for his peace-making efforts, a proposal he repeated at the Florida event. At the same time, he also held out a wider nuclear threat on US territory, saying, 'We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we'll take half the world down with us.' The remarks could not be independently verified but they were reported by the Pakistani media and analysts, some of whom expressed pride in his approach. "FIELD MARSHAL DIRECTLY GIVING NUCLEAR THREATS TO CENTCOM LEADERS ON THE U.S SOIL," one Munir fanboy gloated on social media. Munir was in Florida to attend the retirement ceremony of US CENTCOM Commander General Michael Kurilla, who on July 26 was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan's top honors, for his role in pivoting American interest back to the country after almost two decades of US neglect and near isolation. He also met Kurilla's successor Admiral Brad Cooper and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, attesting to the renewed Pakistan-US ties that appear to have fortified him to make wild threats from soil of his host country. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Referring to the recent four-day clash with India, Munir, a product of Islamic seminaries as much as military academies, quoted profusely from religious texts to frame it as a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty which martyred "innocent civilians," while reaffirming that Kashmir is Pakistan's 'jugular vein.' By most accounts, the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack carried out by Pakistani infiltrators who massacred 26 civilians on the basis of their religious identity, was triggered by a similar remarks by Munir steeped in religious exclusivism and bigotry. Munir's expansive threats against India from US soil, likely an allusion to New Delhi's recent troubles with Bangladesh, included warning that Pakistan's attack will "start from India's East, where they have located their most valuable resources, and then move westwards.' He also mocked India's recent trade fracas with the US while boasting about Pakistan's ability to balance ties between Washington and Beijing. Pakistan's recent "diplomatic and security victories are the result of Allah's blessing, national unity, visionary leadership, and the unmatched professionalism of our armed forces," Pakistani military websites quoted him as saying.
