India warns Pakistan over its nuclear capability remark, says, “We are not scared of your nuke bogey’

New Delhi, August 28: As Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan while addressing the nation repeatedly mentioned of nuclear attack, India reacted strongly as Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen MM Naravane on Tuesday issued a warning to Pakistan and China saying that India is not scared of Pakistan's bogey. Recalling the Doklam stand-off, the Army Vice-Chief said that China acted as a region bully. Adding further he said that no matter how China positions itself, Indian Forces are not pushovers and the Doklam incident proved that.

Reacting to Pakistan’s remarks on nuclear capabilities of the two neighbours, Lt Gen Naravane said, “They can keep raising the nuclear bogey, we are not scared of that," the Army vice-chief designate said during an interaction on 'Defending our Borders' at the Bharat Chamber of Commerce. Speaking on revoking of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, Naravane said that Article 370 was removed as it outlived its utility. "It was an enabling provision, it has outlived its utility and so has been removed," he said.

The Army vice-chief designate also spoke about China and said that Indian Army are not pushovers and that it stood up to China when it was behaving like a regional bully. He said that if China transgressed the "grey zone" at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) 100 times, the Indian Army did so on 200 occasions. He claimed that Beijing acted like a "regional bully" during the Doklam stand-off. Naravane, currently the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, said China must realise that the Indian Army is not what it was at the time of the Sino-Indian war in 1962. "The Doklam standoff gave a clear signal that the Indian Armed forces are no pushovers," he said.

Pakistan and China tried extremely hard to push the Kashmir issue on the international for a asserting Pakistan’s stand over the region. With the entire world speaking in one voice standing by India, UN advised the Pakistan to resolve issue bilaterally which was a tight slap for China as a lesson indicating to maintain distance in other nations issues.