Ajai Shukla
India’s military is reacting furiously to the terrorist attack at an idyllic, high-altitude meadow in Pahalgam, Kashmir, on April 22, in which heavily armed terrorists gunned down at least 26 unarmed tourists and honeymooners.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed retribution and promised that India will pursue the Kashmir attackers to “the ends of the earth.”
Believing an Indian attack imminent, Pakistan is readying its military. So far, India has apparently mobilized only its conventional (non-nuclear) weaponry. However, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif has invoked its weapons of last resort, issuing a thinly-veiled reminder of its nuclear deterrent.
Referring, as Pakistan usually does, to its nuclear arsenal as “strategic,” Defense Minister Asif told Reuters in Islamabad: “In the current situation, some strategic decisions have to be taken. So those decisions have been taken.”
Asked about the prospect of Indian armed retaliation, Asif said: “It is something, which is imminent now.” He further declared that “Pakistani forces have been reinforced.”
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