"Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan's stock-in-trade," India 's External Affairs Ministry said in a public statement on its website. "It is also regrettable that these remarks should have been made from the soil of a friendly third country."

Pakistan’s army chief accused India of continuing to fuel instability in the region and warned it was fully prepared to counter any aggression from New Delhi as tensions between the two rivals remain high following a four-day armed conflict in May.

Washington DC-based South Asia analyst, Michael Kugelman suggested two reasons behind Asim Munir’s ‘nuclear threat’ to India, first that the Pakistani leadership is concerned about the abeyance of Idus Waters Treaty and second,