‘130 missiles kept for India’: Pakistan minister’s open threat as tension escalates over Pahalgam attack

Pakistani minister Hanif Abbasi (Screengrab from Pakistani information channel’s X video)

In an ongoing tension between India and Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack, Islamabad minister Hanif Abbasi brazenly threatened New Delhi with nuclear retaliation and stated that 130 missiles, together with Shaheen, and Ghaznavi, have been kept for India.
“Those Shaheen (missiles), Ghaznavi (missiles), which we have kept arranged in our bases, we have kept them for Hindustan (India). The 130 weapons we possess are not just kept as models — and you have no idea in which parts of Pakistan we have positioned them,” Abbasi stated in a presser.

His remarks got here after India carried out diplomatic actions on Wednesday, together with expelling Pakistani army attaches, halting the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, and shutting the Attari land-transit submit, citing cross-border connections to the Pahalgam attack.
He additionally claimed that India knew the place the missiles Pakistan had deployed and that is the explanation that they’ve taken steps again and never attack their nation.
“That’s why I am repeating it again: these ballistic missiles, these cruise missiles, this Shaheen, this Ghauri — I repeat — they are not in our showcase, they are directed towards you, not towards anyone else,” he stated.
He additionally stated that if India dares to halt Pakistan’s water provide by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, it ought to “prepare for a full-scale war”.
The Pakistan minister requested that every time there may be any incident, as a substitute of holding companies accountable, India put sanctions on one other nation.
“First, give answers for your own actions; first, hold yourself accountable before pointing fingers at us. So, I want to tell the entire nation and the whole world that they threatened us — and we responded: We stopped the water, stopped the trading, and we began our preparations — that’s what I am saying,” he stated.
On April 22, gunmen stormed a gaggle of vacationers on the Baisaran meadow, claiming the lives of 26 folks and injuring a number of extra in what has develop into one of many deadliest assaults within the area because the 2019 Pulwama strike. The Resistance Front, a proxy of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, swiftly claimed accountability, earlier than distancing itself from the attack.