Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated on Thursday, as the Pakistani government announced a series of sweeping retaliation, including closing the airspace of Indian carriers, the day after the movement of India to punish Pakistan.
Following a high -level meeting of the Pakistani National Security Committee, the government has announced that, in addition to overthrowing all Indian transit through Pakistan, it would order India to reduce its diplomatic staff in Islamabad and suspend all trade with India.
The Indian Government has not officially recognized any group behind the attack on Tuesday in a picturesque tourist area of ​​the Indus granted by Indian Kashmir. But he announced on Wednesday a turmoil against Pakistan, including the suspension of a critical water treaty, responding to what he said was Pakistan’s support for terrorist attacks in India.
On Thursday, Pakistan’s leading political and military leadership called on India’s actions – which included the revocation of visas for the Pakistanis and the degradation of diplomatic ties – “unilateral, political incentives and legally invalid”.
In a strongly worded statement on the suspension of the India Treaty on Water Treaty, Pakistan has warned that any attempt to block or divert flows to Pakistan would be considered a “act of war”. Pakistan is based on water from the Indus river system, which flows to India, for about 90 % of its agriculture.
The treaty, held by the World Bank in 1960, was long seen as a rare pillar of stability in South Asia, a framework that even suffered through full -scale wars. Its spread now marks a rupture with a huge symbolic and strategic weight.
Prior to the Security Committee meeting on Thursday, the Pakistani government had hit a measured tone after the fighters killed more than two dozen Indian citizens in Kashmir on Tuesday, insisting that he had no interest in seeing tensions with India.
But throughout Pakistan, people are watching with increasing concern, as Indian officials imply the possibility of military strikes and television broadcasts have been filled with defense analysts who warn of unpredictable consequences if hostilities among the neighboring neighborhoods.
The Kashmir attack, an area, both countries claim and have fought wars, have begun a well -known model.
Indian media, which is largely aligned with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, quickly showed a finger in Pakistan. Pakistan refused to participate and accused India of trying to divert attention from security to the area of ​​concern.
The latest militant attack on this scale on the Indian Kashmir part was held in 2019, when dozens of security personnel were killed. After this attack, India launched an air battle that stopped a little of the war.
Some Pakistani analysts warn that the current confrontation could be intensified beyond the 2019 stance.
He claimed that India used the attack to seek solidarity with the United States and to remove tensions on the threat of President Trump’s invoices, as well as redefine the impetus for Kashmir as a terrorist movement.
Since Wednesday, Pakistani officials said they had no indication of an Indian military mobilization. They said that the Pakistani army remained alert along the control line that separates the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir.
A senior Pakistani security officer, speaking about the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic and military issues, said Pakistan would carefully approach any Tit-for-Tat escalation, but would prevent India’s invasions.
Some military analysts and today’s and former officials accused India of the attack, noting that he had come while Vice President JD Vance visited India.
“They blame Pakistan without proof,” said Ahmed Saeed Minhas, retired General Brigadier, on the TV channel Geo News.
He then made a joke about the 2019 stance between Pakistan and India, when a video came from a Indian Air Force pilot, the Abhinandan Varthaman wing commander, drinking tea while in Pakistani.
“If India tries something again, they must remember – they served tea in Abhinandan in 2019,” Mr Minhas said. “This time. Maybe we will offer him cookies.”
Current tensions have revived memories of the 2019 episode.
A suicide bombing that in February in Pulwama caused an Indian air surface in Pakistan, causing a dog. An Indian jet aircraft was shot down and the Varthaman wing commander was recorded and later released – a gesture that helped cool the tensions if in short.
Officials say the current situation is different from 2019. While the Pulwama attack was claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammed Islamic Islamic team and targeted security personnel, one on Tuesday concerned unarmed citizens and responsibility claims were unclear and non-verified.
So far, the Pakistani army has made no public statement on Tuesday’s attack. The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the loss of life, denied any role by Pakistan and urged India to avoid “premature and irresponsible allegations”.
Employees and analysts warn that while the area avoids disaster in 2019, this good luck cannot be repeated.
“During the last escalation, both India and Pakistan were lucky to leave the staircase,” said Murtaza Solangi, a former intermediate minister.
“This time, we are in a more dangerous phase,” he said. “A fragmented world order and India’s overseas media make it difficult for Modi to act rationally. Both countries will be clean losers if India does not stop this madness.”
