Pakistan’s Defense Minister said on Monday that the military attack by neighboring India is adjacent after the deadly terrorist attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tension between the two nuclear-world nations is increasing. In an interview to the news agency Reuters, Asif said: “We have strengthened our army because it is now an adjacent. So some strategic decisions are to be taken in that situation, so those decisions have been taken.”
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The Pakistani Defense Minister said that Islamabad is “on high alert and will use its nuclear weapons only when there is a direct threat to our existence”. Asif’s comment comes at a time when the central government is preparing for decisive action against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism which has threatened peace in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.
In response to this genocide, India suspended the decades -old Indus Water Treaty (IWT) last week and reduced diplomatic relations with Islamabad. New Delhi also canceled all the existing valid visas issued to Pakistani citizens. Taking Tit Step, Pakistan also suspended all trade, shut down its airspace for Indian airlines and said that any attempt to turn the prescribed water for it under the Indus Water Treaty would be considered as war action.
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Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed not only to punish those who carried out fatal attacks but also the people hidden behind it. PM Modi had said that those who conspired for this will get such punishment that they cannot even imagine. The time has come to destroy whatever is left in the shelter of terror. The will of 140 crore people will break the back of the bosses of terror.
