Overview

• Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations cautioned that any renewed hostilities could bring “cataclysmic devastation” and vowed an unrestrained, “swift, decisive and destructive” response.
• Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif posted on X that India would be “buried under the wreckage of its planes,” invoking religious language and repeating Pakistan’s disputed claims of May air combat victories.
• Indian leaders escalated their warnings, with Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi telling Pakistan to halt state-sponsored terrorism or risk its place on the map, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh threatening a decisive response over Sir Creek.
• India’s Air Chief Marshal A P Singh claimed Indian strikes in May destroyed or damaged at least a dozen Pakistani military aircraft, while Islamabad dismissed the assertion and reiterated its own unverified claims of downed Indian jets.
• No fresh large-scale fighting has been confirmed since the May 10 ceasefire following the Pahalgam-triggered clashes, but both sides remain on high alert and the risk of miscalculation between the nuclear-armed neighbors persists.