Asif said India's rhetoric was intensifying and Pakistan's military had briefed the government on the possibility of an attack.

Pakistan's defence minister said on Monday that a military incursion by neighbouring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in Kashmir last week, as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations.

The Pakistani government said that if India followed through on a threat to block rivers it would take it as “an act of war.”