Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar announces via social media, early on Wednesday morning local time, that there are "credible intelligence" indicating that India is planning a military attack within the next "24 to 36 hours".
Tensions between the two nuclear powers have increased over the past few days. Last week's massacre in Pahalgam in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, where 26 people were killed, has been followed by smaller military skirmishes.
India has hinted that the perpetrators of the massacre belonged to a jihadist terrorist group with roots in and support from Pakistan. This is flatly denied on the Pakistani side, where the Information Minister says that the Indians are planning to use the massacre as a false pretext for an attack.
Given free rein
The Pakistani move follows a meeting in India on Tuesday, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi conferred with the military and security service chiefs. Modi is said to have given them "full operational freedom" in handling the situation.
Over the past few days, there have been reports of smaller shootings along the sensitive contact line that separates Indian and Pakistani forces in divided Kashmir.
Pakistan announced on Tuesday that its forces had shot down an Indian drone that was said to have violated Pakistani airspace. According to the Pakistani news site Dawn, another drone was shot down the same day.
Tightened measures
Pakistan's Vice Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said on Tuesday that his country would not launch a military attack on India, but that it would respond "with full force" if India attacked.
All offensive actions will receive a decisive response, says Information Minister Attaullah Tarar in the recorded statement posted on social media.
After the massacre in Pahalgam, the countries have taken a number of measures against each other. Diplomats have been recalled, India has closed border crossings, and Pakistan has closed its airspace to Indian air traffic.
A large part of the tourist resorts that India's authorities have allowed to open in the scenic mountain areas of Kashmir have been closed until further notice.
Kashmir is located in the western Himalayas and has been divided between India and Pakistan since the countries gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.
Then, Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja joined the mountain state to India in exchange for certain autonomy. This led to a war between India and Pakistan that ended with the division of the region.
Both countries claim the entire Kashmir and have been at open war over the territory twice, most recently in 1971.
Since 1989, several separatist groups have fought against Indian soldiers in the region. Many want to see a united Kashmir, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent state.
The countries are separated by a 74-mile-long and heavily fortified contact line that winds its way through Kashmir.
In addition to this, there is a contact line between India and China in the eastern part of the region, against an area that China controls but which India claims.
