Pakistan claims India plans to attack within 36 hours as tensions surge between nuclear-weapon neighbors

New Delhi – One week after 26 people were killed Terror attack on Indian-controlled Kashmirfears of possible military conflict between India’s nuclear-weapon neighbours and Pakistan. Pakistan’s government claimed on Tuesday night that India is planning military action within hours amid the April 22 terrorist attacks, with “credible intelligence.” Indian officials blamed Pakistan-backed militants.

“Pakistan has reliable intelligence that India intends to take military action against Pakistan within the next 24-36 hours because of the excuses involving investigations and unfounded allegations involving the Bahargham incident.”

The remarks were reported in Indian media that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have the armed forces “totally freely to determine this model, the target and timing of our response to terrorist attacks.”

Modi met with senior government ministers and military commanders behind closed doors on Tuesday night to discuss the response to the attack, which had at least 26 people (25 tourists) killed in a rampage in the picturesque Pahalgam area of ​​Kashmir, India.

India soon accused Pakistan of participating in the attack. Islamabad completely denied any responsibility and proposed an investigation.

The terrorist attack on April 22 was a little-known group called the Kashmir Resistance, but there is no way to confirm the claims made on social media.

A few days after tourists were killed in popular resorts, India occupied a lot Non-military measures against Pakistancancel the key water of sharing agreements, reduce diplomatic relations and require Pakistani nationals to leave the country. Pakistan announced similar reciprocity measures a day later.

Kashmir is claimed by India and Pakistan, but each country has been in control of part of its own mountainous areas for decades. The two countries fought three wars in the region, now divided by a de facto boundary called the Line of Control (LOC).

Indian and Pakistani military forces in the region The guns have been exchanged Over the past six days, the entire LOC has been repeated over and over again.

Since the beginning of the armed anti-Indian insurgency in 1989, the scenic Himalayas have been frequently attacked by radical violence. The clash of elimination claims to have claimed tens of thousands of lives in more than three decades.

On Tuesday, the United Nations warned that if two nuclear-weapon neighbors were to fight, there could be “catastrophic” consequences.

“The confrontation between India and Pakistan cannot be afforded by the region and the world, which will cause catastrophic disasters for both countries and the world as a whole,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Antontio Guterres.

He said Guterres made a phone call with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Indian Foreign Minister.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked the two countries to “not escalate the situation,” spokesman Tammy Bruce said in a briefing Tuesday. She said Rubio will talk to the foreign ministers of the two countries, “as early as today or tomorrow.”

Modi met with his cabinet again on Wednesday. His government did not immediately respond to Pakistan’s claims regarding an imminent military action plan.