Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warns India in opposition to any future army battle

Two days after Indian Army chief warned Islamabad that it will likely be erased from the world map if it continues sponsoring terrorism, Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday (October 5, 2025) cautioned New Delhi in opposition to any future army battle, saying India could be “buried beneath the wreckage of its warplanes.”

Mr. Asif’s response got here days after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief Gen. Upendra Dwivedi cautioned Pakistan in opposition to any misadventure.

Mr. Asif took to social media to reply sharply to what he known as provocative statements from New Delhi’s high safety institution.

He termed some current statements by Indian army and political leaders as a “failed try” to revive their misplaced credibility, which in his phrases was a results of “stress” after defeat within the May clashes.

“The statements of the Indian army and political management are a failed try to revive their tarnished status. After such a decisive defeat with a rating of 0-6, if they struggle once more, the rating, God keen, will likely be much better than earlier than,” he wrote. He, nevertheless, didn’t elaborate what he meant by rating of 0-6.

Pakistan misplaced a number of fighter jets in Operation Sindoor: IAF chief

On Friday (October 3, 2025), Army Chief Gen Dwivedi mentioned the neighbouring nation ought to cease sponsoring terrorism on its soil if it desires to retain its place on the world map.

The Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) additionally mentioned the restraint proven by New Delhi throughout Operation Sindoor wouldn’t be repeated in case of a future army battle.

“India, as a rustic, is totally ready this time. And this time, it won’t present the restraint that it confirmed throughout Operation Sindoor 1.0. This time we’ll take a step ahead and act in a way that may make Pakistan assume whether or not it desires to stay on the world map or not,” General Dwivedi mentioned.

Separately, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh on Friday (October 3, 2025) mentioned at the least a dozen Pakistani army plane, together with U.S.-origin F-16 jets, have been destroyed or broken in Indian strikes throughout Operation Sindoor. The Chief of Air Staff additionally described Islamabad’s declare of Indian losses as “fanciful stories.”

Five Pakistani fighter jets, one plane taken down throughout Operation Sindoor: IAF Chief

“What we have gathered from the intelligence report is that because of these strikes, radars at least four places, command and control centres at two places, runways at two places and then three of their hangars in three different stations have been damaged,” he mentioned.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, talking at an occasion in Hyderabad on Friday (October 3, 2025), asserted that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities has demonstrated, via 2016 surgical strike, 2019 Balakot airstrike and the current Operation Sindoor, that the nation can cross any border at any time when essential to guard residents and safeguard India’s unity and integrity.

A day earlier, the Defence Minister mentioned any misadventure by Islamabad within the Sir Creek sector will invite a “decisive response” that could possibly be sturdy sufficient to vary each “historical past and geography.”

Sir Creek is a 96-km-long tidal estuary between Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch and Pakistan and is taken into account a disputed area owing to various interpretations of maritime boundary traces by each side. In response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault, India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, 2025, concentrating on terror infrastructure in territories managed by Pakistan.

The strikes triggered 4 days of intense clashes that ended with an understanding on stopping the army actions on May 10, 2025.

India has been sustaining that Pakistan pleaded for ending the hostilities in May after Indian army pounded varied Pakistani army infrastructure.