Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s stock-in-trade: India reacts to Asim Munir's threat to 'take down half the world'

It is a symptom that democracy doesn't exist in Pakistan; it is their military which controls everything," government sources added.

India has reacted to Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir's comments on their nuclear weapons where he threatened to fire missiles to destroy the dams built by India on the Indus.

"Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s stock-in-trade," MEA said in statement released on Monday afternoon.

It also added that the international community can draw its own conclusions on the irresponsibility inherent in such remarks, which MEA says reinforces the well-held doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military is hand-in-glove with terrorist groups.

Stating that, it is "regrettable that these remarks should have been made from the soil of a friendly third country," MEA added, "India has already made it clear that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail. We will continue to take all steps necessary to safeguard our national security."

Meanwhile, PTI reported that government sources called out Munir and Pakistan and said the neighbour is an irresponsible state with nuclear weapons.

"Pakistan Army Chief's statement is part of a pattern; whenever US supports Pakistani military, they always show their true colours. There is real danger of nuclear weapons falling in the hands of non state actors in Pakistan" the sources added.

"It is a symptom that democracy doesn't exist in Pakistan; it is their military which controls everything," the sources added.

Munir had said that Pakistan would wait for India to complete building the dams on the Indus and its tributaries and then fire missiles to destroy the dams

The Pakistan Army chief’s not-so-subtle nuclear threat against India on US soil came even as President Donald Trump’s tariff tirade of late strained the relations between New Delhi and Washington, D.C. Trump, himself, had on June 19 hosted Munir, whom India accused of provoking the April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir with an incendiary speech.