Alwaght- Prime Minister Imran Khan warned that Pakistan will retaliate if India takes military action against the country following last week's suicide attack on Indian forces in Indian-administered Kashmir.
"All this 'attack Pakistan' talk is all keeping elections in mind. But if at all these are serious, please make note of one thing clearly - Pakistan will not think of retaliating, it will retaliate," Imran Khan said in a televised address.
A Pakistan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad, claimed responsibility for the terror attack that killed more than 40 members of India's security forces in Thursday.
Pakistani PM called on India to provide evidence to support its claims that Pakistan was involved.
The attack has raised tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who have fought two wars and a limited conflict in the region.
In his first comments addressing the Kashmir militant attack, Mr Khan said India should "stop blaming Pakistan without any proof or evidence" and said that only dialogue could help solve issues in Kashmir.
"How can one country's leadership be the Judge, Jury and Executioner... what sort of justice is this," Imran Khan questioned.
"It is easy to start a war but difficult to end it. I want to ask India if they want to live in the past. It's not in our interest that somebody from here goes out to do terrorism, nor that somebody comes here and does terrorism."
"Any adventurism on the part of India to threaten the sovereignty of Pakistan will be met with assured retaliation," he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, India's top military commander in Kashmir accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of "controlling" last week's attack.
"It was being controlled from across by ISI and Pakistan and Jaish-e-Mohammad commanders," Lieutenant-General KJS Dhillon said of the bomb attack. He did not provide any proof for his accusation but India has long accused Pakistan of backing militant separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The suicide bomber who carried out last Thursday's attack has been identified as a young man from Indian-administered Kashmir. On Monday India killed three militants in a gun battle that it said were members of Jaish-e-Mohammad. Four Indian soldiers and a policeman died in the gunfight.
So far India has focused on retaliation by economic and diplomatic means. It has revoked Pakistan's Most Favored Nation trading status and raised customs duties to 200%.
Both countries have recalled top diplomats.
