The comments came on the heels of the Pakistani railway minister's straightforward statement that it's high time that a final “freedom struggle” take place.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan pointed out Monday that his country is not determined to be the first to resort to a nuclear war with India, amid ongoing tensions with the country's long-standing neighbouring rival.
“We both are nuclear-armed countries. If these tensions increase, the world could be in danger”, Khan said addressing members of the Sikh religious community in the eastern city of Lahore.
“There will be no first from our side ever”, he noted.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan's Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed warned India of area-specific nuclear attacks with a series of minute atomic bombs. The minister went on to schedule the time for the imminent, according to him, war, arguing the appropriate time for a “final freedom struggle has come”, and that the war with India would be the “last, this time”. He mentioned, though, that dialogue is possible, provided India takes a step forward in resolving the Kashmir issue in accordance with United Nations resolutions.
Rashid Ahmed claimed that Pakistan has 125-250-gram nuclear bombs at its disposal, which can hit and destroy whatever targets Pakistan were to pinpoint. He also warned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to avoid a war that may prove to be the “last” between the two nuclear-armed…
