The Daily Populous Sunday April 27th, 2025 day edition
Authored by indiatoday.in and submitted by APrimitiveMartian

In an explosive escalation of tensions, Pakistan Minister Hanif Abbasi openly threatened India with nuclear retaliation, warning that Pakistan's arsenal - including Ghori, Shaheen, and Ghaznavi missiles along with 130 nuclear warheads - has been kept "only for India".

Abbasi said if India dares to halt Pakistan's water supply by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, it should "prepare for a full-scale war". He declared that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not for display, and their locations are hidden across the country, ready to strike if provoked.

"If they stop the water supply to us, then they should be ready for a war. The military equipment we have, the missiles we have, they're not for display. Nobody knows where we have placed our nuclear weapons across the country. I say it again, these ballistic missiles, all of them are targeted at you," he warned.

His reaction came after India announced a series of countermeasures against Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 dead. India announced its decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 and also revoked all visas for Pakistani nationals.

Mocking India's decision to suspend water supply and trade ties with Pakistan, Hanif Abbasi said that New Delhi was beginning to realise the harsh consequences of its actions.

Referring to the disruption caused by Pakistan shutting its airspace to Indian flights, he pointed to the chaos it triggered in Indian aviation in just two days. "If things were to continue like this for another 10 days, the airlines in India would go bankrupt," Abbasi said.

The minister lashed out at India, accusing it of shifting blame onto Pakistan for the Pahalgam terror attack instead of acknowledging its own security failures. He further asserted that Pakistan had already begun preparing for the fallout following India's decision to suspend trade between the two countries, signalling that Islamabad was ready to counter any economic measures taken against it.

Abbasi's remarks came after a series of bold claims made by Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif just days earlier. In an interview, Asif admitted that Pakistan had supported and trained terror groups for the "last three decades", but shifted the blame to the United States and the West, including Britain.

"We have been doing this dirty work for the US and the West, including Britain, for three decades," Asif said. He added that this was a mistake for which Pakistan had suffered greatly. "If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and later on, following the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan would have an unimpeachable track record," Asif explained.

Asif also made headlines by accusing India of "staging" the Pahalgam terror attack, which left 26 dead, in a bid to create a regional crisis targeting Pakistan.

He claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba no longer exists and that he had never heard of The Resistance Front, the group responsible for the Pahalgam attack. "Lashkar is an old name. It does not exist... Our government has condemned it (Pahalgam attack) categorically," Asif insisted.

Published By: Nakul Ahuja Published On: Apr 27, 2025

jjenkinswanderlust on April 27th, 2025 at 07:05 UTC »

Honest question- how did Pakistan of all countries acquire nukes ?

Murky_Code_ on April 27th, 2025 at 06:25 UTC »

So if I am getting this right, first you kill innocents with proxies and when they show signs of retaliation, you threaten to nuke them. Yeah sounds about right. Guys must be mentally very stable.

ApocalypseYay on April 27th, 2025 at 05:05 UTC »

What a pig-headed threat.

Coming right after the Pakistani Defense Minister melted on SkyNews and went full-confessional about state-supporting of terrorism for decades, it just makes the situation worse.

Threatening nuclear-war makes it seem like the regime is full of the worst forms of terrorists, in existence. Hopefully, there are a few cooler heads.