ISLAMABAD
\nDeputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry are holding a press conference amid rising tensions between Pakistan and India over an attack on tourists in the Pahalgam area of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
\nThe presser comes as the two nuclear-armed neighbours are experiencing a period of heightened tensions since the April 22 attack on tourists in the scenic resort town, in which at least 26 people were killed.
\nNew Delhi linked Islamabad to the attack without offering any evidence and took a flurry of punitive measures to downgrade ties, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, revoking visas of Pakistanis, and closing Wagah-Attari border crossing among others.
\nIslamabad, in response, ordered the expulsion of Indian diplomats and military advisers, cancelling visas for Indian nationals, with the exception of Sikh pilgrims, and closing the main border crossing from its side.
\nPakistan also denies its involvement in the attack and offered to take part in a credible and transparent investigation.
\nWith Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warning that the escalation could escalate into an \u201call-out war\u201d, the United Nations has urged Pakistan and India to show \u201cmaximum restraint\u201d to ensure that the situation and the developments do not deteriorate any further.
\nMeanwhile, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said that Pakistan has credible intelligence reports regarding military action by India in the next 24 to 36 hours.
\n\u201cPakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to carry out military action against Pakistan in the next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident,\u201d Tarar said in a video statement issued late Tuesday.
\nA day earlier, the Pakistan Army shot down two Indian quadcopter drones near the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
\n\u2018Irrefutable evidence\u2019
\nBriefing the media a day earlier, DG ISPR presented \u201cirrefutable\u201d evidence of Indian-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan, days after New Delhi accused Islamabad of the Pahalgam attack in IIOJK.
\n\u201cIndia is involved in state-sponsored cross-border terrorism against Pakistan,\u201d Lt Gen Chaudhry categorically stated.
\n\u201cIt has been seven days since the Pahalgam attack, yet not a single shred of evidence has been provided to substantiate the baseless allegations levelled against Pakistan,\u201d he added.
\nThe DG ISPR said that India has been found operating terror networks inside Pakistan, wherein explosives, IEDs, and other lethal materials are being supplied to terrorists with the intent to target not only security forces but also innocent civilians.
\n\u201cThis irrefutable evidence is just one small component of the broader pattern of state-sponsored terrorism being orchestrated by India,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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