Pakistan says credible intelligence suggests India attack looming – National [Video]

Pakistan said Wednesday it had “credible intelligence” that India is planning an attack within days, and promised to retaliate “very strongly,” as soldiers exchanged gunfire along the Line of Control that divides the contested region of Kashmir.

The military escalation follows a tourist terror attack in the historically strife-ridden territory of Kashmir, where gunmen opened fire, killing 26 people on April 22. A group named The Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, has taken responsibility.

The fatal incident led to a downgrade in diplomacy between the two nations, with orders made by both Indian and Pakistani officials last week to revoke visas for their respective citizens to each other’s countries.

Islamabad was prompted to ban Indian nationals after New Delhi suspended a water-sharing treaty, the Indus Waters Treaty, between the two nations.

India also announced that it was cutting diplomatic staff and closing the only usable land border crossing between it and Pakistan.

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