Pakistan believes India is going to attack this week:
Pakistan has alleged that India is planning a military strike on its territory, signaling a further escalation in tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
“Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike within the next 24 to 36 hours, using the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext,” Islamabad’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on X on Tuesday evening.
“Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response. India will be fully responsible for any serious consequences in the region,” Tarar added.
His statement came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his country’s armed forces “full operational freedom” to determine the mode, targets, and timing of a response to the recent terrorist attack in India’s Jammu and Kashmir union territory, which left 26 people dead, mostly tourists.
It will be interesting to see if any of the lessons of the NATO-Russian war have been understood and applied by either the Indians or the Pakistanis. I tend to doubt it, but we’ll see.