Atali, India--- Pakistan said on Wednesday that India is planning to attack it within a few days as soldiers from both sides exchange gunfire along the border, and Pakistanis followed New Delhi's orders following a deadly attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir last week.

India’s move to punish Pakistan after accusing Islamabad of denied attacks in Pahargam drove tensions between nuclear-weapon rivals to its highest point since 2019, when both sides approached war after suicide car bombs in Kashmir.

Pakistan said on Wednesday that the intelligence indicated that India planned to conduct military operations on it "in the next 24-36 hours", out of baselessness and prosecutions involving the Pahalgam incident. ”

Indian officials did not immediately comment. However, Indian government officials said Prime Minister Narendra Modi "provided the armed forces with complete freedom of movement to determine the mode, goal and timing of India's response to the Pahargam Holocaust." They spoke on anonymously to discuss sensitive deliberations.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed in a separate call with India and Pakistan that there is a need to “avoid confrontation that may lead to unfortunate consequences”. The U.S. State Department also called for a downgrade and said Secretary of State Marco Rubio will speak with the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan.

The deadline for Pakistani citizens to leave India (except for those with medical visas) was passed on Sunday, but many families are still scrambling to cross the border in Atari town in northern North Punjab.

Some arrived alone, while others were deported by police.

Pakistani Sara Khan said: "We have addressed our family here. We asked the government not to pull the family up. She held her 14-day-old child in her arms and said she has lived in Kashmir, which is controlled by India since 2017.

“They (Indian authorities) told me that you are illegal and you should go,” Khan said as he crossed the Indian side of the border.

After tensions between India and Pakistan escalated, the gunmen killed 26 people, most of whom were Indian tourists, near the resort town of Pahalgam in Kashmir.

The Holocaust proposed tit-foot diplomatic measures between the two countries, including the cancellation of visas and recall of diplomats. New Delhi also suspended a key moisture sharing treaty with Islamabad and ordered a border closure with Pakistan. In response, Pakistan has closed its airspace with the Indian Airlines.

Cross-border exchanges between Indian and Pakistani soldiers also increased with the development of the control line, which is the de facto border, separating Kashmir territory between the two competitors.

On Wednesday, India and Pakistan accused each other of gunfire along the border.

Pakistan's state-run media said Indian troops violated the ceasefire agreement along the control line by launching fire with heavy weapons. According to Pakistan TV, Pakistani troops also caught fire after being attacked overnight in the Pakistan-controlled Mandal area of ​​Kashmir.

Meanwhile, Indian troops said it responded to "unreasonable" small arms fires from the Akhnoor sector of Naushera, Sunderbani and Indian-controlled Kashmir.

These events cannot be verified independently. In the past, both sides accused each other of starting a border skirmish in the Himalayas.

The attack was made by a previously unknown militant group called the Kashmir Resistance.

At least three tourists who survived told the Associated Press that the gunman picked out the Hindu man and fired from close range. The deceased included Nepali citizens and local Muslim pony riders.

Aishanya Dwivedi, whose husband was killed, said a gunman approached the couple and challenged him to recite the Islamic declaration of faith. She said her husband replied that he was a Hindus and that the attacker shot him to his "head bear".

"He's on my legs. I'm soaked in his blood," Dwivedi told the Associated Press by phone at his home in the Indian city of Kanpur.

Kashmir split between India and Pakistan and all claimed. New Delhi describes all armed works in Indian-controlled Kashmir as Pakistan-backed terrorism. Pakistan denies this, and many Muslim Kashmiris believe that militants are part of the native freedom struggle.

Meanwhile, the Indian Cabinet Security Council, led by Modi, met on Wednesday. This is their second such meeting since the attack.

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Saaliq reported on New Delhi. Associated Press writers Munir Ahmed in Islamabad and Rajesh Roy of New Delhi contributed to the report.