ASIM MUNIR, HEED PM MODI'S WARNING

Experts in psychological operations and body language highlight the difference between the calm and measured confidence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the shrill tones of the Pakistan army chief and his de facto subordinate, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

- SANTISHREE DHULIPUDI PANDIT

Army chief Asim Munir warned that Pakistan would lay waste half the world (yes, you read that correctly, half the entire world) were there to be an "existential threat" to the military-run country. By saying such, he implicitly concedes that India has the capability of delivering an existential blow to Pakistan, which the bigger country certainly does. It would have been rational were the army chief to have spoken of devastating India, even though the reality is that the Pakistan military lacks the capability to do so. Instead, he conflated his threat to take in "half the world".