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In a stern warning issued on Saturday, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif declared that Pakistan may respond with a targeted strike on Kolkata if India undertakes any false flag operations. Speaking in Sialkot, Asif suggested that such operations could involve staging incidents with detained Pakistanis, though he offered no supporting evidence.
Asif asserted that Pakistan’s reaction to any aggression would be ‘swift, calibrated, and decisive,’ a direct response to Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement about taking ‘unprecedented and decisive’ actions against misadventures by India’s neighbors.
This latest exchange of declarations between the two defense ministers occurs in the context of heightened tensions since the Pahalgam attack that sparked a four-day conflict between the countries last year.
(With inputs from agencies.)