Pakistan says it has "credible intelligence" that India intends to carry military action in the immediate future, as tensions grow between the nuclear-armed nations following a massacre of tourists in an Indian-administered area of Kashmir.
"Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends carrying out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours," Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on X.
Tarar's comments follow the April 22 attack in Kashmir, a hotly disputed part of both nations, after militants killed 26 tourists in the mountain town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir.
India says it has identified the three attackers, including two Pakistani nationals, as “terrorists” but Pakistan has denied any role and offered a neutral investigation.
In response to the rising discord, U.S. secretary of state Marco Rubio has asked both nations to "de-escalate tensions," according to Statement Department call transcripts, which show a conversation with both India's external affairs minister and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Shari.
In his call with Sharif, Rubio "spoke of the need to condemn the terror attack on April 22 in Pahalgam" and urged Pakistani officials' cooperation in investigating the attack in the Kashmiri town.
He also encouraged the Pakistani leader to "re-establish direct communications" with India.
