Pakistan's military is preparing to defend against any attack by India, and would respond with "full force", the army's spokesman said on Friday.
"We have no intention to initiate war, but we will respond with full force to full spectrum threat, that would surprise you," Major General Asif Ghafoor said. "Don't mess with Pakistan."
"We do not wish to go to war. If it is imposed on us, we have the right to respond," he told a news conference in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, a week after a Pakistani-based militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary policemen in the disputed Kashmir region.
A suicide bomb attack on a paramilitary police convoy in Kashmir last Thursday killed at least 40 men, the deadliest single attack on Indian forces.
The Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group claimed responsibility for the attack. India accuses Pakistan for harboring the group. Pakistan denies that.
Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Himalayan region, is held by India and Pakistan in parts and claimed by both in full. A small sliver of Kashmir is also held by China.
