Pakistani information minister, Attaullah Tarar, indicates on Tuesday, April 29, that his country “has credible information according to which India plans to launch a military strike in the next 24 to 36 hours.”
“Any act of aggression will lead to a decisive response,” he warns, specifying that “India will assume full responsibility for any serious consequence in the region.”
The tension between the two nuclear powers has only increased from an attack in the Indian part of the back on April 22.
Even before any claim, New Delhi held Islamabad responsible for this attack, the deadliest had attacked civilians in this mainly Muslim region for more than twenty years. Pakistan immediately denied any participation and claimed a “neutral research.”
The Indian Army has “operational freedom”
The Kashmira was shared in its independence in 1947 between India and Pakistan, which have involved several wars since then and continue to demand sovereignty throughout this territory. Since 1989, the fight between separatist insurgents and the 500,000 Indian soldiers deployed in the Indian part of this disputed region have killed tens of thousands of people.
The two nuclear powers have been in the warfoot for several days. Their governments have multiplied the reciprocal diplomatic sanctions and their nationals were asked to leave the neighbor’s territory no later than Tuesday.
Several nights have been exchanged between Pakistani and Indian soldiers along the “control line” (LOC), the border that separates the coffee between its two countries. These skirmishes did not make victims, according to New Delhi.
For his part, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, said previously that his army has “operational freedom” to respond as she wants this attack. During a meeting with his personnel bosses, the leader of India, “he told the Armed Forces that they had the freedom to decide the objectives, the moment and the mode of Indian response to the terrorist attack that attacked civilians in cashmere.”
His pachyst counterpart Shehbaz Sharif, on the other hand, urged the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to “advise India” to demonstrate “moderation.”
The escalation between the two countries awakens the concern from the international community. For example, the United States has said “to reach both parties” and “ask them not to get worse.” The Secretary of State Frame Rubio must meet soon with his Indian and Pakistani counterparts.
Source: BFM TV
