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India said in response to Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir's nuclear threat during his visit to the USA, that “Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan's stock-in-trade.”

In an address to the Pakistani diaspora in Florida's Tampa, Munir reportedly made the nuclear threat in case his country faced an existential threat in a future war with India.

"We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we'll take half the world down with us," media reports quoted him as saying.

In a statement released in New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs said:

“Our attention has been drawn to remarks reportedly made by the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff while on a visit to the United States.

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The international community can draw its own conclusions on the irresponsibility inherent in such remarks, which also reinforce the well-held doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military is hand-in-glove with terrorist groups.

It is also regrettable that these remarks should have been made from the soil of a friendly third country.

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India has already made it clear that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail. we will continue to take all steps necessary to safeguard our national security."