“Any act of aggression will be the subject of a decisive response,” said the information minister
The Pakistan Information Minister says India has advanced to have credible information that India can launch a military attack in the next 24 to 36 hours, writes Reuters.
Attaullah Tarar, Pakistan’s Information Minister, said Pakistan that Pakistan has credible information that India intends to launch a military attack over the next 24 to 36 hours.
“Pakistan has credible information that India intends to launch a military attack over the next 24 to 36 hours, using the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext,” Tarar said in a post on social network X.
“Any act of aggression will be the subject of a decisive response. India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region,” he added.
It is recalled that India and Pakistan are part of the small group of countries around the world that have nuclear weapons. According to CNN Brazil, Pakistan has about 170 nuclear warheads, while India will have approximately 160 nuclear warheads.
In a sign of extreme tensions in the region, Pakistan announced Wednesday that it had “slaughtered” an Indian surveillance drone, without specifying the date of the incident, on which India remained silent.
On April 22, several gunmen killed 26 people in the tourist city of Pahalgam, in the part of Caxemira administered by India.
Even before any claim, Nova Deli liable Islamabad for the attack, the deadliest in more than 20 years against civilians in this region of a Muslim majority.
Pakistan immediately denied any involvement and required a “neutral inquiry.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured, however, to the army “operational freedom” to respond as they want the attack that killed 26 people in Caxemira Indiana, indicated a government source.
In a meeting with his bosses of staff, Modi repeated that his country, which blamed Pakistan by the attack, is “determined to inflict a decisive blow to terrorism,” said the government source who requested anonymity, quoted by the French news agency AFP.
According to the same source, Modian “told the Armed Forces that they had the freedom to decide on the targets, the moment and mode of Indian retaliation to the terrorist attack that victimized civilians in Caxemira.”
The Indian executive head “reiterated the national determination to unleash a decisive blow against terrorism and his full confidence in the ability of the Indian Armed Forces to do so, the source added.
The two nuclear powers have since been war: their governments have multiplied reciprocal diplomatic sanctions and their citizens were invited to abandon the delay in the territory of the neighboring country by the end of April.
Already in 2019, after a deadly attack on its soldiers, India performed an air strike on Pakistani soil, which retaliated.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will contact his Indian and Pakistani counterparts asking them not to climb the situation, his spokesman said on Tuesday.
“We are contacting both parties and asking, of course, that they do not aggravate the situation,” Tammy Bruce told reporters.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also appealed to the governments of India and Pakistan to “avoid” that current bilateral tensions degenerate in clashes that could have “tragic consequences.”
Guterres spoke separately over the phone with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and “expressed his profound concern about increasing tensions between India and Pakistan”, underlining the need to avoid a confrontation that could have tragic consequences, “said Stéphane Dujaric, spokesman of the Secretary General.
The UN leader also offered his services to “support the efforts of unfolding,” the tensions created by the deadly attack of Caxemira a week ago, whereby India blames neighbor Pakistan.
There are several nights that are registered cross -fire of light artillery between Pakistani and Indian soldiers throughout the “control line”, the “de facto” border that separates the Indian and Pakistani zones from Caxemira, according to the Indian army.
Caxemira was divided between India and Pakistan when they became independent in 1947. But the two opponents have since continued to claim their total sovereignty over the region.
Since 1989, the Indian part has been the scene of a separatist insurrection that has made tens of thousands of dead.
