Gen Asim Munir Denies Allegations of Foreign Help

Gen Asim Munir Denies Claims of Foreign Military Support During Recent Conflict With India

Islamabad, July 8, 2025 — Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, on Monday dismissed claims that Pakistan received foreign military support during its recent four-day conflict with India, calling such allegations “factually incorrect” and “irresponsible.”

His remarks come in response to statements made by India’s Deputy Army Chief, Lieutenant General Rahul R. Singh, who last week alleged that Pakistan’s Operation Bunyanum Marsoos was backed by China and Turkiye, turning the conflict into what he called a “three-front challenge” for India during Operation Sindoor (May 7–10).

Speaking at the National Defence University in Islamabad, General Munir addressed the graduating officers, strongly rejecting what he described as attempts to internationalize a bilateral military engagement.

“Insinuations regarding external support in Pakistan’s successful Operation Bunyanum Marsoos are irresponsible, factually incorrect, and reflect a chronic reluctance to acknowledge the indigenous capability and institutional resilience that Pakistan has developed over decades of strategic prudence,” he said.

Munir went further to condemn the attribution of foreign involvement as part of “camp politics,” adding:

“Naming other states as participants in a purely bilateral military conflagration is a shoddy attempt to play geopolitical alignments to one’s narrative advantage.”

Background to the Conflict

Lt Gen Rahul Singh, while addressing a defence seminar in New Delhi last week, had claimed that China provided active military assistance to Pakistan during the May conflict, allegedly using it as a “live laboratory” to test new weapon systems. He also alleged that Turkiye supplied key military hardware, suggesting India faced more than just a regional adversary.

“Wars are not won through media rhetoric, imported fancy hardware, or political sloganeering, but through faith, professional competence, operational clarity, institutional strength, and national resolve,” Gen Singh said.

In contrast, General Munir reiterated Pakistan’s military self-sufficiency and warned that any misadventure or threat to Pakistan’s sovereignty would be met with a swift, decisive response.

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