Reliance refinery will be attacked: Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir threatens

WASHINGTON: Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir has threatened India again. The new threat is that Pakistan will attack the Reliance Industries Limited refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat, if there is any military confrontation with India in the future. Asim Munir said this while addressing the Pakistani diaspora in the US.

Asim had threatened that Pakistan would not hesitate to push India into a nuclear war if its existence was threatened. The new threat has been followed. 'We are a nuclear nation, if we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us,' Munir said the other day.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs responded that the international community can draw its own conclusions on the irresponsibility inherent in such remarks, which also reinforce the well-held doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military is hand-in-glove with terrorist groups. "India has already made it clear that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail. We will continue to take all steps necessary to safeguard our national security," the ministry said.

Sources close to the central government had earlier said that Munir's remarks show Pakistan's irresponsibility when it comes to nuclear weapons. "Whenever the Pakistani army gets US support, they show their true colors. The army chief's statements make it clear that there is no democracy in Pakistan and the country is in the hands of the army," central government sources said.