Pakistan claims India planning to attack within 36 hours as tension soars

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India, Pakistan combat aft large onslaught

India, Pakistan feud aft deadly Kashmir attack 03:32

New Delhi — A week aft 26 radical were killed successful a terrorist onslaught successful Indian-controlled Kashmir, interest was mounting implicit a imaginable subject clash betwixt nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan. Pakistan's authorities claimed precocious Tuesday nighttime that it had "credible intelligence" that India was readying to instrumentality subject enactment wrong hours successful retaliation for the April 22 violent attack, which Indian officials blasted connected Pakistani-backed militants.

"Pakistan has credible quality that India intends carrying retired subject enactment against Pakistan successful the adjacent 24-36 hours connected the pretext of concocted and baseless allegations of engagement successful the Pahalgam incident," Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said astatine a midnight quality conference.

The remarks came hours aft Indian media reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had fixed the country's equipped forces "complete operational state to determine connected the mode, targets and timing of our effect to the panic attack."

Modi had met with elder authorities ministers and subject commanders down closed doors connected Tuesday evening to sermon the effect to the attack, which saw astatine slightest 26 radical — 25 of them tourists — killed successful a rampage by gunmen successful Indian Kashmir's picturesque Pahalgam area.

India rapidly accused Pakistan of engagement successful the attack. Islamabad has flatly denied immoderate work and offered to transportation retired an investigation.

The April 22 violent onslaught was claimed by a small known radical that calls itself the Kashmir Resistance, but determination has been nary mode to corroborate the assertion made connected societal media.

Just days aft the tourists were killed successful the fashionable abrogation area, India took a fig of non-military measures against Pakistan, calling disconnected a cardinal h2o sharing pact, downgrading diplomatic relations, and asking Pakistani nationals to permission the country. Pakistan announced similar, reciprocal measures a time later.

Kashmir is claimed successful afloat by some India and Pakistan, but each federation has controlled its ain information of the mountainous portion for decades. The 2 nations person fought 3 wars implicit the region, which is present divided by a de-facto borderline called the Line of Control (LoC).

Indian and Pakistani subject forces successful the portion have exchanged gunfire crossed the LoC repeatedly implicit the past six days.

The scenic Himalayan portion has been deed regularly by militant unit since an equipped anti-Indian insurgency began successful 1989. The simmering struggle has claimed tens of thousands of lives implicit much than 3 decades.

An Indian information unit force stands defender connected a thoroughfare successful Srinagar

On Tuesday, the United Nations warned of perchance "catastrophic" consequences if the 2 nuclear-armed neighbors were to spell to war.

"The portion and the satellite cannot spend a confrontation betwixt India and Pakistan, which would beryllium catastrophic for the 2 countries and for the satellite arsenic a whole," said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Antontio Guterres.

He said Guterres had held abstracted telephone calls with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and India's overseas minister.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked the 2 countries "not to escalate the situation," spokesperson Tammy Bruce said during a briefing connected Tuesday. She said Rubio would talk with the overseas ministers of some countries, "as aboriginal arsenic contiguous oregon tomorrow."

Modi was gathering again with his furniture connected Wednesday. His authorities did not instantly contented immoderate effect to the Pakistani claims of imminent plans for subject action.