From the DeskPakistan threatens to respond forcefully to “Indian aggression.” follows the horrific attack in Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives. India halted the Indus Waters Treaty, while Pakistan blocked Indian aircraft from using its airspace.
Attaullah Tarar, the minister of information for Pakistan, asserted early on Wednesday that the nation has “reliable intelligence” that India might launch a military attack in the next 24 to 36 hours. This comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the Indian military “full operational flexibility” on Tuesday to respond to the April 22 terror incident in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed 26 lives.
“Any act of aggression would be faced with a severe retaliation and hold India accountable for any serious consequences in the area,” Tarar said in a statement posted on X. “Pakistan has reliable information that India plans to use the Pahalgam tragedy as a fictitious pretext to conduct a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours,” Tarar stated.
“We will respond decisively to any act of hostility. Any significant repercussions in the area will be entirely India’s fault,” he continued. “Pakistan genuinely understands the sorrow of this scourge, having been a victim of terrorism itself,” he added. No matter where it occurs, we have consistently denounced it in all of its forms and manifestations.
“Open-heartedly promised a credible, transparent, and impartial investigation by a neutral commission of specialists to discover the facts,” the minister said of Pakistan. Additionally, he emphasized that “the onus of an escalatory spiral and its attendant consequences shall fully fall with India” and called on the international community to acknowledge the gravity of the issue. He added, “The country reaffirms its determination to protect Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity at all costs.” As India has claimed that there were Pakistani components to the terror assault that claimed 26 lives in Pahalgam, tensions between the two neighboring countries have increased. Khawaja Asif, Pakistan’s defense minister, had earlier warned news agency Reuters that India would soon launch a military invasion. Asif stated that although Pakistan was on high alert, it would only deploy its nuclear weapons in the event that “there is a direct threat to our existence.” As India intensified its diplomatic campaign against Pakistan, Prime Minister Modi declared on April 24 that his country will “identify, track, and punish” all of the terrorists and their “backers” who participated in the Pahalgam massacre and hunt down the murderers to the “ends of the earth.” India halted the Indus and lowered diplomatic relations with Pakistan and suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, closed the Attari-Wagah border, expelled all Pakistani miltary attaches, while Pakistan responded with tit-for-tat measures and paused the 1972 Simla Agreement.
Inika Manohar
