Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister Attaullah Tarar said that India is planning an attack on Pakistan within 24-36 hours.
"Pakistan has credible intelligence that India intends to launch a military strike in the next 24-36 hours, using the Pahalgam incident as a false pretext. Any act of aggression will be met with a decisive response," the minister wrote on his X page.
Tarar also said that New Delhi "will be held accountable for any possible consequences" for the region.
Meanwhile, Pakistani troops have again opened fire along the Line of Control in several areas of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army said.
„On the night of April 30, Pakistani army posts opened unprovoked small arms fire across the Line of Control in the Nowshera, Sunderbani and Akhnoor sectors of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. "Indian troops responded swiftly and proportionately," the Indian army said in a statement, quoted by the Hindustan Times.
There have been reports of ceasefire violations along the India-Pakistan border for a week amid heightened tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad following a suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people.
According to media reports, India has found evidence of Pakistani intelligence involvement in the attack, carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, and in response has halved the number of staff at its embassy in Islamabad, suspended a bilateral water-sharing agreement, issued visas to Pakistani nationals and declared military advisers at the country's diplomatic mission persona non grata.
On Tuesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on security, to which he said that the Indian armed forces have complete freedom to decide the manner, purpose and timing of their response to the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir.