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TopicAsim Munir

Topic: Asim Munir

Munir’s threat to ‘take half the world down’ highlights Pakistan’s ‘true colour’, say govt sources

Pakistani army chief’s remarks show his country is ‘irresponsible State with nuclear weapons’ & willing to shelter terrorists under the nuclear umbrella, sources say.

ThePrint Exclusive: Asim Munir’s India nuke threat from US ballroom—‘will take half the world down’

Speaking at black-tie dinner in Tampa, Pakistan army chief Asim Munir, ThePrint has learnt, also said, ‘we will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with ten missiles’.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Trump amplifies tariff threat on India over Russian oil & things are ‘looking up’ for Asim Munir

Washington Post underlines West’s ‘frustrations’ over failure to ‘cripple’ Russia’s economy & The Economist notes ‘shift’ in American foreign policy vis-à-vis India & Pakistan. 

After recommending Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan’s big military honour for US general

Honour for Michael Kurilla comes weeks after the US general praised Islamabad as a 'phenomenal partner' in counterterrorism and a day after Ishaq Dar met Marco Rubio.

India must create a graded Munir response plan. He could rear his head before long

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Pakistan’s Asim Munir rejects India’s claim of Chinese help post-Pahalgam terror attack

Indian army's deputy chief Lieutenant General Rahul Singh said last week that China gave Islamabad 'live inputs' on key Indian positions.

First Field Marshal Munir, now air chief Zaheer Babar, how Pakistan and US are resetting military ties

After last month's visit by Field Marshal Asim Munir, PAF chief is meeting with US senior military officials. ThePrint takes a look at the history of US-Pakistan military ties.

After Trump lunch & SCO meet, Munir warns India against acting under ‘illusion of strategic impunity’

Pakistan Army chief dismisses India’s characterisation of insurgent activity in J&K as terrorism, reiterates Islamabad’s long-held position that Kashmir is a core issue in South Asia.

Asim Munir is playing good jihadi-bad jihadi game. Suicide bombing shows he’s failing

As a succession of generals before Asim Munir learned, cooptation of Pakistani jihadism is a dangerous—and mostly short-lived—enterprise.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.