Pakistan fears India incursion 'imminent' amid heightened tensions following terror attack

Pakistan’s defence curate connected Monday said helium believes an incursion by India is "imminent" arsenic tensions stay heightened pursuing a militant onslaught successful India’s Kashmir portion past week, which saw the sidesplitting of 26 people, archetypal reported Reuters. 

India, which has not named immoderate radical it suspects of starring the onslaught but said it believes Pakistan to person backed the militants progressive successful the assault, has reportedly engaged successful an assertive hunt to find those progressive successful the deadliest onslaught successful 2 decades. 

According to a BBC report, Indian authorities person utilized explosives to demolish properties allegedly linked to the suspects, much than 1,500 radical person been detained for questioning and troops from some India and Pakistan person exchanged cross-border tiny arms fire.

Indian information forces unit escort an ambulance carrying the bodies of tourists who were killed successful a suspected militant onslaught adjacent Pahalgam, extracurricular the constabulary power country successful Srinagar April 23, 2025.  (REUTERS/Stringer)

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"We person reinforced our forces due to the fact that it is thing which is imminent now. So successful that situation, immoderate strategical decisions person to beryllium taken, truthful those decisions person been taken," Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Reuters connected Monday from the superior metropolis of Islamabad. 

Asif did not accidental wherefore helium thought a imaginable incursion from India was imminent, but noted that allies successful the Gulf had been informed, who successful crook had seemingly communicated the concern connected the crushed with officials successful China and the U.S.

The New York Times connected Monday likewise reported that India appeared to beryllium gathering its lawsuit for imaginable subject involution arsenic Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been engaging successful wide diplomatic outreach by speaking with much than a twelve satellite leaders astir the situation.

This is simply a locator representation for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)

INDIA VOWS TO HUNT TERRORISTS ‘TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH’ AS TENSIONS WITH PAKISTAN RISE AFTER KASHMIR ATTACK

The feud betwixt India and Pakistan predates past week’s onslaught by astir 80 years, pursuing Britain’s determination to extremity its nonstop regularisation successful the portion pursuing World War II and enact the 1947 Partition of British India, which fundamentally divided modern-day India and Pakistan based connected Hindu and Muslim populations — though it caused monolithic unrest and displacement on spiritual lines.

The partition besides gave the divers Jammu and Kashmir portion the quality to take if it wanted to articulation either recently established nation. 

Ultimately, the struggle ongoing contiguous stems from the erstwhile monarch of the region’s archetypal effort to question independence, followed by its determination to articulation India successful speech for information against invading Pakistani militias.

Indian information forces basal defender astatine the tract of an onslaught connected tourists successful Kashmir's Anantnag territory connected Tuesday, April 24. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi)

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India and Pakistan person engaged successful respective wars and cross-border skirmishes successful the decades since. 

While President Donald Trump said past week that resolving the decades-old struggle was down to New Delhi and Islamabad to benignant out, the State Department said it was moving with some sides to promote a "responsible solution."