Pak's WAR cry

New Delhi/Islamabad: In an explosive escalation of tensions, Pakistan minister Hanif Abbasi openly threatened India with nuclear retaliation, warning that Pakistan's arsenal - including Ghori, Shaheen, and Ghaznavi missiles along with 130 nuclear warheads - has been kept "only for India".

Abbasi said if India dares to halt Pakistan's water supply by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, it should "prepare for a full-scale war". He declared that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not for display, and their locations are hidden across the country, ready to strike if provoked.

"If they stop the water supply to us, then they should be ready for a war. The military equipment we have, the missiles we have, they're not for display. Nobody knows where we have placed our nuclear weapons across the country. I say it again, these ballistic missiles, all of them are targeted at you," he warned.

His reaction came after India announced a series of countermeasures against Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 dead. India announced its decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 and also revoked all visas for Pakistani nationals.

Mocking India's decision to suspend water supply and trade ties with Pakistan, Hanif Abbasi said that New Delhi was beginning to realise the harsh consequences of its actions.

Referring to the disruption caused by Pakistan shutting its airspace to Indian flights, he pointed to the chaos it triggered in Indian aviation in just two days. "If things were to continue like this for another 10 days, the airlines in India would go bankrupt," Abbasi said.

The minister lashed out at India, accusing it of shifting blame onto Pakistan for the Pahalgam terror attack instead of acknowledging its own security failures. He further asserted that Pakistan had already begun preparing for the fallout following India's decision to suspend trade between the two countries, signalling that Islamabad was ready to counter any economic measures taken against it.