‘Painful penalties’: India warns Pak to ‘mood rhetoric’; ‘hiding own failures’ | India News

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of exterior affairs on Thursday slammed Pakistan for its anti-India rhetoric and warned of “painful consequences” if it doesn’t mood its reckless, war-mongering, and hateful feedback.In a press briefing, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated, “We have seen reports regarding a continuing pattern of reckless, war-mongering, and hateful comments from Pakistani leadership against India.”“It is a well-known modus operandi of the Pakistani leadership to whip up anti-India rhetoric time and again to hide their own failures. Pakistan would be well-advised to temper its rhetoric, as any misadventure will have painful consequences, as was demonstrated recently,” he added.This comes days after Pakistan military chief Asim Munir issued sharp anti-India remarks, saying, “If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us.”Munir additionally reportedly threatened Reliance Industries Ltd’s Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat, the most important single-site refining advanced on this planet, as a potential goal in any future army battle with India.India, in response, stated Munir’s remarks solely reinforce longstanding issues in regards to the lack of civilian oversight in Pakistan’s nuclear decision-making, the place the army operates “hand-in-glove” with terrorist organisations.