Pakistan states that India plans to attack within 36 hours as the tension between nuclear weapons neighbors rise

New Delhi – A week after 26 people were killed in a Terrorist attack controlled by the Indiansthe concern was increasing about a possible military clash among the neighbors of nuclear weapons India and Pakistan. The Pakistan government said Tuesday night that it had “credible intelligence” that India planned to take military measures in a matter of reprisals for the terrorist attack of April 22, that the Indian officials blame the militants backed by the Pakistani.

“Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to carry out military actions against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours under the pretext of accusations of participation and without foundation in the incident of Pahalgam,” said Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, at a midnight press conference.

The comments occurred hours after the Indian media reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given the country’s armed forces “complete operational freedom to decide on the mode, objectives and time of our response to the terrorist attack.”

Modi had met with government ministers and military commanders behind closed doors on Tuesday night to discuss the response to the attack, which saw at least 26 people, 25 of them tourists, killed in an uproar of armed men in the picturesque area of ​​the Pahalgama de la India de Cashmira.

India quickly accused Pakistan of participation in the attack. Islamabad has flatly denied any responsibility and offered to carry out an investigation.

The terrorist attack of April 22 was claimed by a little -known group that calls itself the resistance of Kashmir, but there has been no way to corroborate the claim made on social networks.

A few days after tourists were killed in the popular holiday area, India took several Non -military measures against Pakistancanceling a key pact to share water, degrading diplomatic relations and asking Pakistani citizens to leave the country. Pakistan announced similar reciprocal measures one day later.

Kashmira is in full claimed by both India and Pakistan, but each nation has controlled its own part of the mountainous region for decades. The two nations have fought three wars on the region, which is now divided by a de facto edge called Control Line (LOC).

Indian and Pakistani Military Forces in the region They have exchanged shots through the loc repeatedly in the last six days.

The picturesque Himalayan region has been regularly beaten by militant violence since an armed anti -union insurgency began in 1989. The slow conflict has gained tens of thousands of lives for more than three decades.

On Tuesday, the United Nations warned about potentially “catastrophic” consequences if the two neighbors with nuclear weapons went to war.

“The region and the world cannot afford a confrontation between India and Pakistan, which would be catastrophic for the two countries and for the world in general,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Antontio Guterres.

He said Guterres had made separate phone calls with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Indian Foreign Minister.

The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has asked the two countries to “not intensify the situation,” said spokesman Tammy Bruce during an informative session on Tuesday. She said Rubio would talk to the foreign ministers of both countries, “as soon as today or tomorrow.”

Modi met his cabinet again on Wednesday. His government immediately issued any response to the Pakistani statements of imminent plans for military action.

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