Overview

• Pakistan’s military said a renewed conflict with India could bring “cataclysmic devastation” and declared a “new normal” of response that would be swift, decisive and destructive.
• ISPR asserted the capability to strike deep across the border and warned that any talk of erasing Pakistan would mean mutual destruction.
• Defence Minister Khawaja Asif escalated the rhetoric on X, saying India would be “buried under the wreckage of its warplanes” and invoking religious language in the threat.
• Senior Indian officials in recent days issued sharp warnings, with the army chief vowing not to show past restraint, the defence minister cautioning over Sir Creek, and the air chief claiming Pakistani aircraft losses during May’s fighting.
• Both sides continue to trade unverified claims about aircraft and base damage from May’s clashes, and analysts caution that the intensifying war of words between the nuclear‑armed neighbours heightens the risk of miscalculation without fresh hostilities reported.