Muzaffarabad, Pakistan: Kashmir administered by Pakistan called residents near the de facto border with India to store food on Friday May 2, while tensions evolve between the arc rivals after a deadly attack last month.
India blames Pakistan for support A shooting on civilians On the tourist site of Pahalgam to the cashmere administered by the Indians on April 22, which killed 26 men.
Islamabad denied the accusation and the uncomfortable neighbors made a series of punitive punitive diplomatic measures.
The two nuclear countries have shots exchanged For eight consecutive nights along the militarized control line (LOC), the de facto border that separates the contested cashmere region.
“Instructions have been sent to store food supplies for two months in the 13 constituencies along the loc,” the cashmere administered by Pakistan, Chaudhry Anwar Ul Haq, said on Friday to the local assembly.
The regional government has also created an emergency fund of 1 billion rupees (3.5 million US dollars) to provide “food, drugs and all other basic necessities” to the 13 constituencies, he said.
The government and private machines were also deployed to maintain roads in areas along the loc, he said.
In Muzaffarabad, the capital of the region, dozens of demonstrators gathered under the banner of a cashmere political coalition, singing “death in India” and calling for “jihad”, according to an AFP journalist.
“This protest march is a demonstration of solidarity with the Pakistani army,” Farooq Rahmani told AFP one of the organizers of the demonstration.
“If there is a mishap (by India), we are ready to respond firmly,” he added.
The Indian cashmere attack and subsequent tensions, including expulsions and closed border passages, have raised fears of conflagation between India and Pakistan.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday gave the army “full operational freedom” to respond to the attack.
Pakistan said earlier this week had “credible evidence” than India Plan an imminent military strikepromising that any attack is welcomed with an answer.
Fearing a military climbing, the Pakistani cashmere authorities closed more than 1,000 religious schools for 10 days on Thursday.
India and Pakistan, which entirely claimed cashmere, have fought Himalayan territory since the end of British domination in 1947.