India 'shouldn't be in any delusion': Asim Munir continues anti-India rant

Islamabad: Pakistan's newly appointed Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), Field Marshal Asim Munir has warned that any aggression by India in the future would invite ‘severe and intense’ response from Pakistan.

Asim Munir was speaking to the officers following a guard of honour ceremony when he made the anti-India rant referring to Operation Sindoor which saw India razing Pakistan’s terror infrastructure, NDTV reported.

India’s military action on May 7 followed terror attack in Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.

‘India should not be in any delusion [as] Pakistan's response [in the event of any aggression] will be even more swift and intense,’Munir said.

At the ceremony where Munir was given a guard of honour by all three services – the Pakistan Army, Pakistan Navy and Pakistan Air Force he said that no one would be allowed to test Islamabad's territorial integrity or sovereignty.

Munir also warned Afghanistan’s Taliban regime saying ‘The (Afghan) Taliban have no option but to choose between Fitna al-Khawarij and Pakistan’.

Pakistan last year termed the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as ‘Fitna al-Khawarij’, referring to a group which in earlier Islamic history was involve in violence, according to NDTV.

Munir told officers that ‘In view of the growing and changing threats, it is necessary that we further improve multi-domain operations under the unified system of the three forces.’

Munir assumed the position of Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), becoming the single most powerful military figure in the country, thus consolidating his authority over all three service branches (Army, Navy, and Air Force).

The position gives him oversight of the National Strategic Command that controls the country's nuclear weapons and missile systems.

Munir was made the CDF after the 27th Constitutional Amendment last month alongside changes in the Pakistan Army, Air Force, and Navy (Amendment) Bills 2025.