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Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir has rejected India’s assertion that the country received strategic support from China during Operation Sindoor.
“Insinuations regarding external support in Pakistan’s successful Operation Bunyanum Marsoos are irresponsible and factually incorrect and reflect a chronic reluctance to acknowledge indigenous capability and institutional resilience developed over decades of strategic prudence,” Munir said.
Munir’s remarks came in response to the Indian Army’s Deputy Chief Lt Gen Rahul R Singh, who said that China was supporting Pakistan behind the scenes during the four-day-long India-Pakistan conflict that followed the terrorist attack in Pahalgam .
“If you were to look at statistics from the last five years, 81 per cent of the military hardware that Pakistan gets is from China. In the conflict, China was able to test its weapons against other weapons, so it is like a live lab available to them,” Deputy Chief Singh said.
The Pakistan army chief further said that Islamabad will retaliate against any challenge to the country’s sovereignty in the future. “Any attempt to target our population centres, military bases, economic hubs and ports will instantly invoke a deeply hurting and more than reciprocal response," Munir said.
He asserted that, unlike India’s strategic approach, which he described as driven by “parochial self-alignment,” Pakistan has built enduring partnerships through principled diplomacy rooted in mutual respect and a commitment to peace, positioning itself as a stabilising force in the region.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Singh also said that India was not only fighting Pakistan and China but also Turkey during Operation Sindoor.
During an event organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in Delhi, he said, “Pakistan was at the front. China was providing all possible support… Turkey also played an important role in providing the type of support it did.”
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