As tensions between the archrivals escalate following a deadly attack last month, Pakistan-administered Kashmir called on Pakistanis near the de facto border with India to stockpile food on Friday ( May 2 ).
India accuses Pakistan of backing a shooting that left 26 people dead on April 22 at the holiday destination of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Islamabad has refuted the claim, and the troubled neighbors have taken a number of disciplinary diplomatic steps.
Along the militarized Line of Control ( LoC), the de facto border that separates the disputed Kashmir region, the two nuclear-armed countries have engaged in gunfire eight times in a row.
The primary minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Chaudhry Anwar la Haq, told the local council on Friday that “instructions have been issued to store food items for two weeks in the 13 divisions along the LoC.”
According to him, the provincial government has also established an 1 billion rupee ( US$ 3.5 million ) emergency fund to ensure the source of “food, medicines, and all other simple necessities” to the 13 divisions.
He claimed that equipment from the government and private companies were also being used to preserve roads in the locations along the LoC.
According to an AFP blogger, dozens of demonstrators gathered in Muzaffarabad, the country’s capital, under the symbol of a Kashmiri political partnership, chanting” Death to India” and calling for” Jihad.”
One of the organizers of the opposition, Farooq Rahmani, stated to AFP,” This protest protest is a show of solidarity with the Pakistan war.”
We are prepared to respond firmly if there is a misadventure ( by India ), he continued.
Doubts of a rift between India and Pakistan have increased as a result of the harm in Indian Kashmir and later tensions, including expulsions and border crossings.
On Tuesday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the martial” full operational independence” to listen to the attack.
Pakistan claimed earlier this week that it had” credible information” that India is planning an inevitable military reach and that it would respond to any attack.
Officials in Pakistani Kashmir feared a military upheaval and on Thursday, the country shut down more than 1, 000 spiritual schools for 10 times.
Since the close of European rule in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought over the Himalayan country in full.