Jammu, Oct. 19 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson and convenor for international affairs Gaurav Gupta on Sunday dismissed Pakistan's latest nuclear warnings as empty threats, saying they would neither intimidate India nor change the status of Jammu and Kashmir.

Gupta was reacting to remarks by Pakistan's Commander of the National Strategic Command, General Syed Aamer Raza, who reportedly warned on October 17 that any miscalculation by adversaries would invite a response "far beyond the imagination" of the initiator. Raza made the remarks while addressing a passing-out parade at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul.

In a statement, Gupta accused Pakistan of using threatening rhetoric to provoke tensions and said India would not...