India, April 4 -- Pakistan's defence minister Khwaja Asif on Saturday warned that his country would attack India's eastern metropolis of Kolkata if the neighbour attempted any "false flag operations". The comments came after India's defence minister Rajnath Singh earlier warned India's "neighbours" against carrying out any "misadventures".

Speaking to reporters in his hometown of Sialkot, Asif said, "If India tries to stage any false flag operation this time, then God willing, we will take it to Kolkata," news agency PTI reported.

He further said, "If India plans some false-flag operation through their own men or through the Pakistani people in their detention by planting bodies somewhere and claiming they were terrorists who had done s...