Pakistan Says Clash With India ‘Imminent’ After River Flow Cuts

People cross the Chenab River at Akhnoor, India, on May 5.

Photographer: Channi Anand/AP Photo

Pakistan’s defense chief warned of an “imminent” clash with India as a dispute over river water and blame for a terrorist attack last month in Kashmir escalates between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

“The moment India makes a move, we will give them a befitting reply,” Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said Tuesday evening in an interview with Geo television, speaking hours after he accompanied Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to a briefing by the country’s top spy agency, known as Inter-Services Intelligence, on situation with India.