Ek ke baad ek BrahMos chalega...: Mithun Chakraborty's blunt warning after Bilawal Bhutto's ‘six rivers’ remark

Actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Tuesday issued a sharp response to Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s recent comments on the Indus Waters Treaty, warning that India would retaliate hard if Islamabad pursued such rhetoric.

“…Agar aisi baatein karte rahenge aur hamari khopdi sanak gayi toh phir ek ke baad ek BrahMos chalega… We have also thought of building a dam where 140 crore people will pee. After that, we will open the dam, and a tsunami will occur. I have nothing against the people of Pakistan. I have said all of this for him (Bilawal Bhutto),” Chakraborty said.

Bhutto’s water war rhetoric

A day after Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir’s reported nuclear threat, Bhutto had invoked water warfare, warning that “yet another war may end up with Pakistan taking back all its six rivers from India.” Addressing a gathering in Sindh, Bhutto accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s water projects on the Indus of being an “attack on our history, culture and civilization” and alleged New Delhi was plotting to choke Pakistan’s lifeline, reported The Express Tribune.

The “six rivers” — Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej — were apportioned under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, which India upheld even through wars, terror attacks, and decades of hostility.

Bhutto’s remarks echoed Pakistan’s military line. A day earlier in Tampa, Florida, Munir had threatened to destroy Indian infrastructure if water flows were reduced and issued a nuclear warning: “We are a nuclear nation. If we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us.”

India slams ‘irresponsible’ threats

New Delhi dismissed Munir’s words as nuclear sabre-rattling — Pakistan’s “stock-in-trade” — and said such threats only deepen doubts about the integrity of its nuclear command, “especially in a state where the military is hand-in-glove with terrorist groups.” The Ministry of External Affairs said India would not yield to nuclear blackmail and would take all measures to safeguard national security.

Government sources said Munir’s aggressive posture fits a familiar pattern: using India-focused rhetoric to deflect from Pakistan’s internal crises and the weakening of civilian rule. “Emboldened by the reception in the US, the next step could possibly be a silent or open coup so that the Field Marshal becomes the President,” one source said.