Baloch Leader Denounces Munir’s Nuclear Threat to India as ‘Madness of Religious Extremism’

Tara Chand, President of the Baloch American Congress, on Wednesday vehemently condemned Pakistani Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for issuing nuclear threats and referred to him as a "fake Field Marshal" and an "enemy" of humanity.

The statements come after Munir's weekend visit to the US, where he threatened that Pakistan would never let India cut off the Indus River and would fight for its water rights at any cost, even vowing to destroy any dam India might seek to construct.

Chand, a former Cabinet Minister in the Government of Balochistan, posted on X, “Pakistan's fake Field Marshal, General Asim Munir, who has threatened in America to destroy India and the world with his nuclear bombs, should be ashamed of himself. He is the number one enemy of humanity, driven by the madness of religious extremism under the banner of Islam. He seeks to destroy the world along with India.”

Referring to the incident as a wake-up call, the Baloch leader based in the US called on global leaders to seize all of Pakistan's nuclear warheads and put in place economic, political, and international sanctions against it.

Chand stressed that in order to deter Pakistan from pursuing its "religiously-motivated" destructive ambitions, its nuclear capability has to be disarmed.

Pakistani media outlets reported that Munir had traveled to two US cities at the weekend before departing for Belgium on Sunday, his second high-profile US visit in under two months.

In May, Chand had written to PM Narendra Modi, praising India's move to suspend the Indus Water Treaty. He had also called on New Delhi to back the "free Balochistan" movement.

On behalf of the people of Baloch in America, Chand thanked PM Modi for India's stand on the situation of the Baloch in Pakistan since 2016.

Your reference to Balochistan during your address at the Red Fort was received by the Baloch across the world as an indication of moral support for an occupied, oppressed, and terrorized nation by Pakistan. It filled my Baloch brethren with great hope," Chand's letter said.

"I appreciate your prudent choice of keeping the Indus Water Treaty on hold and making it apparent to the jihadist generals of Pakistan that blood and water cannot go together," he said.

Chand emphasized the Baloch people's long history of oppression beginning with Pakistan's takeover of Balochistan in 1948, condemning the Pakistani Army for killings and forced disappearances. He characterized these abuses as part of Islamabad's campaign to crush Balochistan's freedom struggle.

The Baloch leader called upon the Indian government to continue providing political, moral, and diplomatic support to the Baloch national resistance movement against Pakistan's occupation.