Islamabad has information about India’s intentions to strike Pakistan within 24–36 hours, the country’s information minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on his X on Wednesday.
“Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends carrying out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours,” he wrote.
“Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response. India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region,” Tarar also added.
On April 22, a group of militants armed with firearms attacked tourists in the town of Phalgam, located in the mountainous Anantnag district of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The territory has been under Delhi’s control since the partition of British India, but Pakistan also claims it. The attack killed 26 people — 25 Indian citizens and one Nepalese citizen.
Tarar noted that Islamabad had offered to conduct an investigation into the incident with the participation of a neutral commission of experts. At the same time, according to him, India “appears to have decided to embark on a dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation, which will have disastrous consequences for the entire region and beyond.”
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Shooting at the Pakistan-India border
On April 24, the Indian government announced the suspension of the 1960 Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan. In the evening of the same day, troops from both countries opened fire along the line of control.
On Monday, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said that an Indian military invasion of Pakistan was inevitable. According to him, the military had informed the government of the possibility of an attack from the Indian side.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to punish all those involved in the attack in Pahalgam. The Indian armed forces have “complete freedom” to decide how and when to respond to the terrorist attack, he said.
