Pakistan would hit Kolkata in 'future' conflict: Khawaja Asif

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday warned India that it would respond with a strike in Kolkata to any “future misadventures.” “If India tries to stage any false flag operation this time, then God-willingly, we will take it to Kolkata,” Asif said while talking to reporters at his hometown of Sialkot, some 130kms from Lahore. He claimed that there are reports that a false-flag operation has been designed through their own men or through the Pakistanis in their detention by laying down some bodies somewhere and saying “they were terrorists and had done so and so.”
Asif made the remarks after India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that any “misadventure” from Pakistan in the prevailing situation would invite an “unprecedented and decisive” response from India. The Pahalgam attack that took place on April 22 last year resulted in a four-day conflict between the two countries. He added that Pakistan aims to promote “regional stability” and hopes the ongoing negotiations will lead to a resolution of disputes. “Repeated rhetoric reflects not strength, but visible strategic anxiety as the anniversary of the staged false-flag operation in Pahalgam approaches—an episode that failed to withstand international scrutiny and exposed New Delhi’s reliance on manufactured crises,” Asif had said in a post on X, while tagging Singh.