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2025-05-01 India-Pakistan
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Pakistan warns it has 'credible intelligence' India is planning military attack within next 36 hours as nuclear-armed rivals inch towards war after Kashmir atrocity
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[Daily Mail, where America gete its news] Pakistan claims it has 'credible intelligence' that India is preparing to launch a military operation within two days, raising fears of a war between the nuclear-armed neighbours amid escalating tensions in Kashmir.
The statement by Information Minister Attaullah Tarar came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met yesterday with army and security chiefs, giving the military 'complete operational freedom' to respond to the attack, a senior government source said.
Fresh fighting erupted last week in Kashmir - a territory that has been disputed between India and Pakistan since the British partition of India in 1947 - after gunmen killed 26 people.
The shooting, which Indian authorities say was perpetrated by three terrorists, including two Pakistani nationals, targeted Hindu tourists relaxing in the meadows near the town of Pahalgam in Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement early on Wednesday, Islamabad again denied any involvement in the attack, adding that it condemned terrorism in all forms and would respond 'assuredly and decisively' to any Indian military manoeuvres launched 'on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident'.
'Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response,' said Tarar. 'India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region!'
"Look what you made us do!"
The warning comes after Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Reuters in an interview earlier this week: 'We have reinforced our forces because (an incursion) is something which is imminent now.'
He added that India's rhetoric was ramping up and that Pakistan's military had briefed the government on the possibility of an Indian attack, though he gave no details as to why he thought an incursion by India's forces was in the offing.
The April 22 assault prompted a flurry of military and diplomatic action as both sides moved to militarise along the 'Line of Control' (LoC) that separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
India launched naval drills, test-fired several long-range missile systems and suspended a key treaty that ensures India supplies Pakistan with water from the Indus River, a provision that is crucial for Pakistan's water supply and agricultural economy.
The unprecedented abeyance of the treaty on India's part is seen by some analysts as a key factor that could hasten a major conflict.
Dr Manali Kumar – an Indian foreign policy expert and lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, said: 'India's response, moving beyond conventional diplomatic and past kinetic military actions to include the unprecedented suspension of participation in the foundational Indus Waters Treaty... carries immense risks.
'It is perceived by Pakistan as an existential threat – an act of war if water flows are curtailed - drastically increasing the likelihood of military confrontation between two nuclear-armed states.
'This also sets a dangerous precedent for the weaponisation of shared resources, raising alarms among India's other neighbours who will be watching how this develops very carefully.'
Pakistan in turn deployed its air force to close its airspace to Indian airlines and has mobilised its army with footage appearing to show artillery batteries and armoured vehicles on their way to the LoC in anticipation of a major conflict.
India's army today said it had repeatedly traded gunfire with Pakistani troops for a sixth night in a row across the LoC - a heavily fortified zone of high-altitude Himalayan outposts - but with no reported casualties.
Pakistan's military did not confirm the shooting, but state radio in Islamabad reported on Tuesday it had shot down an Indian drone, calling it a violation of its airspace.
In the meantime, several politicians have ramped up threatening rhetoric.
Pakistan's railway minister, Hanif Abbasi, dramatically declared at the weekend that his nation's nuclear arsenal of more than 130 missiles were 'not kept as models' and were reserved 'only for India'.
'These ballistic missiles, all of them are targeted at you,' he concluded in a chilling warning.
The brutal attack that stoked tensions in Kashmir unfolded on a stunning day in the rolling hills a short walk from the town of Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
The majority of the dead were Hindu tourists from India, with reports from witnesses and survivors claiming the gunmen, who remain at large, were ordering civilians to recite Islamic prayers and shooting those who were unable to do so.
A Pakistani militant group known as The Resistance Front (TRF) claimed responsibility in the wake of the attack, only to rescind the statement days later and blame the initial claim on a communications breach.
India accused Pakistan of supporting 'cross-border terrorism' as authorities concluded the gunmen were Islamic militants and identified two of the three suspected shooters as Pakistani.
Indian foreign policy and defence experts also claimed that the TRF is closely linked with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
But authorities in Islamabad called attempts to link Pakistan to the attack 'frivolous'. 
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