'Pakistan will use ‘full spectrum of power’ if attacked – envoy'

[Sukla Sen]

<<Speaking to RT on Saturday, the ambassador [of Pakistan] said that Pakistani intelligence has evidence of planned military aggression from New Delhi, which has accused Islamabad of supporting cross-border terrorism on its soil. “There are some other leaked documents whereby it has been decided to strike certain areas of Pakistan,” Jamali said. “So that makes us feel that this is going to happen and it’s imminent.” 

The ambassador warned that Pakistan is prepared to respond to any aggression: “We in Pakistan will use the full spectrum of power, both conventional and nuclear.” 

He also reiterated Islamabad’s position regarding the Indus Water Treaty, a key agreement between India and Pakistan, which New Delhi suspended last week as a part of its diplomatic response to the attack. “Any attempt to usurp the water of the lower riparian, or to stop it, or to divert it would be an act of war against Pakistan and would be responded to with full force of power including full spectrum of power,” the envoy said. 

Jamali, however, urged de-escalation, noting the potential danger given that both countries possess nuclear weapons. “As the two countries are two nuclear powers, there is all the more need to deescalate the tensions.” Pakistan has earlier called for “neutral and credible investigations” into the Kashmir attack. “I think the role of the international community comes in. And in this regard, we expect that powers like China and Russia can participate in those investigations,” he added.>>

<https://www.rt.com/india/616708-pakistan-will-use-full-spectrum-india/>

It's hardly any revelation that when two nuclear neighbours engage in a major armed confrontation, and on top of that their conventional firepower is way asymmetric, it may rather readily lead to nuclear exchange.

The world must take note!

It's not only India and Pakistan or even South Asia, in such an event, numerous credible studies have predicted that the whole world would be grievously affected.

(Ref., e.g : "The ramifications for Indian and Pakistani society would be major and long lasting, with many major cities largely destroyed and uninhabitable, millions of injured people needing care, and power, transportation, and financial infrastructure in ruins. But the climatic effects of the smoke produced by an India-Pakistan nuclear war would not be confined to the subcontinent, or even to Asia. Those effects would be enormous and global in scope." at <https://thebulletin.org/2019/10/how-an-india-pakistan-nuclear-war-could-start-and-have-global-consequences/>.)

Peace Is Doable