Will hit Delhi, Mumbai: Ex-diplomat Abdul Basit’s shocking threat if US attacks Pakistan

The remarks come less than a year after India and Pakistan were locked in a tense standoff following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.

Speaking during a discussion on a hypothetical conflict, Basit was quoted as saying that Pakistan would respond by striking Indian cities if attacked by the United States.

“If America attacks Pakistan, we have to attack India — Mumbai, New Delhi — without a second thought,” he said, according to media reports.

“We won’t leave it. We will see what happens later,” he was quoted as saying by the media, while also noting that such a scenario remains unlikely.

New Delhi has not issued any official response to the former envoy’s remarks so far.

Basit served as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India from 2014 to 2017.

His comments come at a time of heightened regional tensions, with India-Pakistan relations already strained and the broader geopolitical environment unsettled amid the ongoing Iran-US-Israel conflict.