Pakistan says India planning attack before Friday amid Kashmir tensions

Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar said on Wednesday that the country had credible intelligence that India intended to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours.

This comes as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations rise as India has said there were Pakistani elements to the attack that killed 26 men at a tourist spot in Indian Kashmir last week.

Islamabad has denied any role and called for a neutral investigation.

Since the attack, the nuclear-armed nations have unleashed a raft of measures against each other, with India putting the critical Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance and Pakistan closing its air space to Indian airlines.

“Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours using the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext,” Tarar said in a post on social media.

“Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response. India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region.”