PAKISTAN claimed today to have “credible intelligence” suggesting that India is planning a military attack within days, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours spiralled following a terrorist atrocity in Kashmir.

The warning came amid cross-border gunfire along the Line of Control, the de facto border dividing Kashmir, and as Pakistanis in India scrambled to leave the country after New Delhi ordered them out in the wake of last week’s massacre near Pahalgam, which left 26 people dead, most of them Indian tourists.

The attack, claimed by a previously unknown militant group calling itself the Kashmir Resistance, has triggered major diplomatic and security repercussions.