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Former High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit- File image- PTI
‘We’ll bomb Delhi, Mumbai if US targets our nukes’: Pakistan’s former envoy to IndiaFP News Desk • March 22, 2026, 09:00:09????
Basit, who served as Islamabad’s top diplomat in New Delhi from 2014 to 2017 framed India as Pakistan’s “default” target in a worst-case scenario where the US targets its nuclear assets.
As tensions in West Asia intensify amid the ongoing Iran war involving the United States and Israel, a controversial statement by former Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit has raised fresh concerns about regional security.
Speaking about a hypothetical worst-case scenario, Basit, who served as Islamabad’s top diplomat in New Delhi from 2014 to 2017, suggested that Pakistan could strike India if faced with an existential military threat from the US or Israel.

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