Speaking to Pakistani newspaper Daily Jang's editor Suhail Warraich during a meeting in Brussels, Munir described reports suggesting a leadership change in the country as “completely false” and emphasised that he has no ambition for any position beyond his current role, calling himself “protector of the country.”

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, with tremendous amounts of rain falling in a short period of time over a concentrated area. The intense, sudden deluges have proved fatal in both countries.

Cloudbursts are causing chaos in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, triggering flash flooding and wiping out entire villages. | ITV National News

Islamabad has confirmed that Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, compared his country to a “dumper truck full of gravel” and India to a “shining Mercedes” during his recent remarks in the United States, a crude analogy that has drawn sharp reactions in New Delhi.

The United States monitors the India-Pakistan situation "every single day", said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, reiterating claims by American President Donald Trump of having helped in averting a nuclear escalation between countries.

Pakistan possessed video evidence of six Indian fighter jets that had been shot down during the recent conflict, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Sunday.Islamabad had prior intelligence of

"Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan's stock-in-trade," India 's External Affairs Ministry said in a public statement on its website. "It is also regrettable that these remarks should have been made from the soil of a friendly third country."

Naqvi said it was a major challenge for the government to provide evidence to the world, including wreckage of Indian jet fighters shot down by Pakistani forces. He noted with pride that within minutes of the operation, not only images but also videos of the destroyed aircraft were available, strengthening Pakistan’s stance globally.

As India invests in more BrahMos missiles and upgraded SAAW systems, observers say Pakistan is ‘copying China’ with a new rocket force.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in New Delhi on a three-day tour for boundary talks. Despite a visible thaw in the frosty bilateral ties, experts say the India-China relationship remains far from normal as Beijing’s campaign against New Delhi has not shown any sign of slowing down.

India and China are aware of the “very high political, economic and military cost of frozen relations,” he says. “China felt it had pushed India too close to the U.S. while India realized that it was losing its vaunted strategic autonomy by getting too close to Washington and turning Beijing into an adversary.”