Pakistan has alleged that India is planning a navy strike on its territory, signaling an extra escalation in tensions between the 2 nuclear-armed neighbors.
“Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a navy strike throughout the subsequent 24 to 36 hours, utilizing the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext,” Islamabad’s Data Minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on X on Tuesday night.
“Any act of aggression might be met with a decisive response. India might be totally chargeable for any severe penalties within the area,” Tarar added.
His assertion got here after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his nation’s armed forces “full operational freedom” to find out the mode, targets, and timing of a response to the current terrorist assault in India’s Jammu and Kashmir union territory, which left 26 folks lifeless, principally vacationers.
New Delhi has linked the terrorist assault to Pakistan, reiterating long-standing accusations that its neighbor helps cross-border terrorism and insurgencies.
Islamabad has denied the allegations and, in flip, accused India of backing “terrorist networks” working on Pakistani soil. The 2 nations have a long-standing dispute over the Kashmir area, which is de facto divided by the Line of Management established after the 1971 Indo-Pakistani Struggle.
On April 22, terrorists opened hearth on a bunch of individuals in Pahalgam, within the northern a part of Jammu and Kashmir. The Resistance Entrance, believed to be an offshoot of the Pakistan-based jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed accountability for the assault.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to punish “the terrorists and their backers.” Indian media reported on Tuesday that 4 anti-terror operations have been underway in Jammu and Kashmir.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Pakistani Protection Minister Khawaja Asif prompt that the Pahalgam assault was a false flag operation staged by India.
In response, New Delhi’s Deputy Envoy to the United Nations, Yojna Patel, condemned Islamabad for making what she known as “baseless allegations in opposition to India.”
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