Recently Pakistan’s foreign minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif issued a nuclear threat in a response to a statement of Army Chief Bipin Rawat. Khawaja Asif launched a scathing attack on India’s General Bipin Rawat by declaring the comments were “not befitting his office”. On this background India has been blasted as “irresponsible” after Bipin Rawat claimed he was ready to call the “nuclear bluff” presented by Pakistan as tensions rise between the two nations, it has emerged. And actually, the stark threat came after Bipin Rawat suggested he is willing to carry out a military operation that can start World War 3.
India and Pakistan are showing their anger against each other since the independence but actually, it was converted to cold war after the Kargil war and recently it has been transformed to some other direction. Both the countries are taking a sudden turn toward usage of the nuclear weapon. As per the comments of K Asif and India Army chief Bipin Rawat, it is very clear that both of them are very much confident to turn down each other. Maybe it is a short-term agitation but the consequences of this comment are very high.
Khawaja Asif tweeted: “Very irresponsible statement has been given by Indian Army Chief Bipin Rawat, not befitting his office.” it is the amounts to invite for a nuclear encounter. “If they desire, they are always welcome to test our resolve. “The general’s doubt will be removed swiftly”.
According to Rawat: “India will call the bluff of Pakistan. “If India will have to really confront the people of Pakistan, and a project is given to Indians, we are not going to say India cannot cross the border because they have nuclear weapons. “I will have to call their nuclear bluff.”
When Pakistan’s Asif Gafoor, the spokesman for the Pakistan army stated that the south-Asian country has “credible nuclear capability, tensions were really raised to another level. He also declared that if India is trying to test Pakistan then Indian may try and see it for themselves. According to Mr. Gafoor “Pakistan have a credible nuclear capability, exclusively meant for the threat from the east. But all of us believe that it is a weapon of deterrence, not a choice.”
Since few decades a lot of clashes already happened in Line of Control (LoC). LoC is a segment of the border between India and Pakistan. The area is heavily militarized by both the countries. Last year in 2017, our Indian Army killed 138 troops from Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) border but at the same time, 28 Indian soldiers were also disappeared. Last month in Dec 2017, a battle between India- Pakistan left 4 Indian troops dead. This border area was named the Line of Control (LoC) following the Simla Agreement which was signed between the two nations on 3rd July 1972.
