Pakistan Army warns India it will respond to any attack with ‘full force’

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File Photo: Army soldiers arrive at the premises of distribution point where electoral workers gather to collect election materials, ahead of general election in Rawalpindi, Pakistan 24 July 2018 - Reuters

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters): 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, amid heightened tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbours.“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.