Congress condemns Asim Munir’s remarks, says U.S. giving him particular therapy is weird

The Congress on Monday (August 11, 2025) strongly condemned Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir’s remarks, during which he directed a nuclear menace at India from U.S. soil, and mentioned it’s weird that the American institution is giving such a person such particular therapy.

In an handle to the Pakistani diaspora in Florida’s Tampa, Mr. Munir reportedly made the nuclear menace in case his nation confronted an existential menace in a future struggle with India.

The Pakistan Army chief additionally warned that Islamabad would destroy Indian infrastructure, if New Delhi hit water circulation to Pakistan.

“We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we will take half the world down with us,” media reviews quoted Mr. Munir as saying.

Congress normal secretary answerable for communications, Jairam Ramesh, mentioned that on April 16, General Munir made incendiary, inflammatory and communally-poisonous remarks that supplied oxygen to the brutal terror assaults at Pahalgam six days later.

“On 18th June, 2025, Field Marshal Asim Munir is invited by President Trump for an unprecedented luncheon meeting in the White House,” Mr. Ramesh mentioned.

On August 8, Mr. Munir was in Tampa for a farewell operate for the chief of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla, who had earlier praised Pakistan as a “phenomenal partner” in counter-terrorism operations, the Congress chief identified.

“On 10th August, 2025, in a talk to US diaspora Pakistanis, Field Marshal Asim Munir makes the most dangerous, provocative, and totally unacceptable remarks on nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan,” he mentioned.

The Congress condemns these remarks within the strongest doable phrases, Mr. Ramesh added.

“It is bizarre that the U.S. establishment is giving such a man such special treatment,” he mentioned.

Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s “stock-in-trade”, New Delhi had mentioned, in a robust response to Munir’s nuclear menace directed at India from the U.S. soil.

India had mentioned Mr. Munir’s remarks bolstered the well-held doubts concerning the integrity of nuclear command and management in Pakistan, the place the army is “hand-in-glove” with terrorist teams.

In an announcement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) mentioned India has already made it clear that it’ll not give in to nuclear blackmail and that it’ll proceed to take all steps essential to safeguard nationwide safety.

It can also be regrettable that these remarks ought to have been constituted of the soil of a pleasant third nation, the MEA mentioned, in an obvious message to the United States.