COAS Asim Munir rejects Indian claims of Chinese support in recent military conflict

As India struggles to justify its recent military failures, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Field Marshal Asim Munir, categorically dismissed New Delhi’s claims that Pakistan relied on Chinese support during the recent military conflict. He warned that any future Indian aggression would be met with a swift and decisive response.

Addressing graduates of the National Security and War Course at the National Defence University (NDU) in Islamabad, the Army Chief called India’s allegations a “shoddy attempt at playing camp politics.”

He condemned India’s effort to drag China into what he described as a bilateral military engagement, saying it was a desperate move to present India as a geopolitical player and the so-called "net security provider" in the region.

“Naming other states as participants in the purely bilateral military conflagration is also a shoddy attempt at playing camp politics and desperately trying that India remains the beneficiary of larger geopolitical contestation as the so-called net security provider in a region,” the COAS stated.

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His remarks came after India’s deputy military chief alleged last week that China was supplying Pakistan with communication and technological support during the conflict.

Responding to the claims, Gen Munir said that "such insinuations regarding external support in Pakistan’s successful Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos are irresponsible and factually incorrect and reflect a chronic reluctance to acknowledge indigenous capability and institutional resilience developed over decades of strategic prudence."

“The success of Pakistan’s Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos was the result of institutional resilience and decades of carefully developed strategic preparedness, not foreign intervention,” he said.

Rejecting India’s narrative of regional dominance, the Army Chief criticised New Delhi’s parochial and self-serving approach to foreign policy. He stressed that Pakistan has built long-term partnerships rooted in principled diplomacy, mutual respect, and regional peace, and continues to play a stabilising role in South Asia.

COAS Munir warned that Pakistan remains firm in its stance on sovereignty and territorial integrity, and any hostile act or provocation by India would be immediately met with a powerful and proportionate response.

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“Any attempt to target our population centres, military bases, economic hubs and ports will instantly invoke a 'deeply hurting and more than reciprocal response,” he said.

“The onus of escalation will squarely lie on the strategically blind arrogant aggressor who fails to see the grave repercussions of such provocative actions against a sovereign nuclear state.”

He further emphasised that wars are not won through media campaigns, imported military hardware, or political slogans, but through national resolve, professional excellence, institutional strength, and operational clarity.

Expressing full confidence in the preparedness and professionalism of the Pakistan Armed Forces, the Field Marshal urged the graduating officers to uphold the values of integrity, service, and unwavering commitment to national defense.