Pakistan claims India planning to attack within 36 hours as tension between nuclear-armed neighbors soars

A week after 26 people were killed in a terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir, concern was mounting over a possible military clash between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan. Pakistan’s government claimed late Tuesday night that it had “credible intelligence” that India was planning to take military action within hours in retaliation for the April 22 terrorist attack, which Indian officials blame on Pakistani-backed militants.

“Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends carrying out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours on the pretext of concocted and baseless allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident,” Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said at a midnight news conference.

The remarks came hours after Indian media reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given the country’s armed forces “complete operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets and timing of our response to the terror attack.”

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