Pakistan is preparing for ‘imminent’ Indian attack.
The Pakistani defence minister claimed India’s rhetoric had been escalating in the days since a terrorist attack in Kashmir raised the threat of war
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Monday April 28 2025, 11.46pm BST, The Times
The Pakistani defence minister has said his country is reinforcing troops in anticipation of an “imminent” military incursion by India.
Tensions between the two nuclear powers have been growing since militants last week killed 26 tourists in Kashmir, an attack India has said was linked to Pakistan.
“We have reinforced our forces because it is something which is imminent now,” Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the defence minister, told Reuters, referring to a possible cross-border incursion by India. “So, in that situation, some strategic decisions have to be taken,” he said, claiming that India’s rhetoric was escalating and that, as a result, Pakistan’s military had briefed the government on the possibility of an attack. He did not expand on why the military believed this to be the case. Times.
