Pakistan claims “trusted intelligence” India plans for an imminent military strike

Pakistan Information Minister says the country has “reliable intelligence” that India intends to launch a military strike during the next 24 to 36 hours.

Atallah Tarar’s comments come after India accused Pakistan of supporting the militants behind an attack in Kashmir by an Indian 26 tourists were killed Last week. Islamabad rejects allegations.

Tarar said that India intends to use the attack as a “wrong pretext” for a strike and that “any such a military adventure by India will definitely respond and decide.”

BBC called the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment.

The attack near Pahalgam tourist town was the bloody attack on civilians for two decades in the disputed territories. Both India and Pakistan claim the region and fought two wars on it.

The forces from both sides traded small, intermittent arms fires across the border in recent days.

There was speculation about whether India would respond to military strikes against Pakistan, as it did after the deadly armed attacks in 2019 and 2016.

The authorities said last week that they conducted extensive searches in Kashmir, which relies on Indian, and detained more than 1500 people to interrogate. More people have been detained since then, although the numbers are not clear.

The authorities have Demolishing homes at least 10 alleged militants. According to what was reported, at least one was linked to a suspect in the shooting.

Kashmir, which India and Pakistan claimed completely but partially managed, was a flash point between the two nuclear armed countries since they were divided in 1947.

Kashmir by the Indian has witnessed an armed rebellion against Indian rule since 1989, as the militants targeted both security forces and civilians.

India has not named any group of suspects that carried out the attack in Bahmam and still is not clear from doing so. An unknown group called The Resistance Front, which was initially reported that she claimed that she had conducted fires and issued a statement denied participation. The front is said to be affiliated with Lashkar-E-TAIBA, a Pakistan-based militant group.

The Indian police have appointed three of the four suspects. They said that two Pakistani citizens and one local man from Kashmir by an Indian. There is no information about the fourth man.

Many survivors said that the militants specifically targeted Hindu men.

This attack sparked widespread anger in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly said that the country would hunt the suspects “until the ends of the earth” and that those who planned and implemented it “will punish their imagination.”