Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif Threatens to 'Take It to Kolkata' if India Stages False Flag

Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, speaking to reporters in Sialkot on April 4–5, 2026, threatened that Pakistan would 'take it to Kolkata' if India staged a 'false flag' operation against Pakistan. Asif alleged that New Delhi was plotting a provocation using planted bodies or detained persons to manufacture a pretext for military action — a Pakistani accusation pattern also made before Operation Sindoor. He separately threatened to 'strike RSS camps' inside India. The remarks — threatening a major Indian city nearly 1,200 km inside Indian territory — drew immediate condemnation. Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had already warned (April 2) that any misadventure would draw 'unprecedented and decisive' Indian response. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee publicly demanded Prime Minister Modi respond to the threat and called for his resignation, saying the people of West Bengal 'will not tolerate such threats.' Asif's Kolkata threat was widely interpreted as a departure from previous Pakistani rhetorical patterns that focused on military targets rather than major civilian Indian cities.