In an inflammatory statement, Pakistan's Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur on Wednesday, 30 October said that any country that supports India over the Kashmir issue will be hit by a missile by Pakistan and considered as an "enemy" of Islamabad.
“If tensions with India rise on Kashmir, Pakistan will be compelled to go to war,” he also said.
Pakistan-based journalist Naila Inayat tweeted a part of the video in which the minister is seen making the inflammatory remarks.
In August this year, Pakistan's Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed predicted that a full-blown war between India and Pakistan is on the cards for the months of October and November.
In his maiden address at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan had also raked up the dire consequences in the event of a nuclear war with India.
"If a conventional war starts between the two countries anything could happen. A country seven times smaller than its neighbour what will it do – either surrender or fight for its freedom," he had said.
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