Muzaffarabad (Pakistan) (AFP)

Pakistan on Wednesday adopted a warlike tone against India, Islamabad warning New Delhi against any aggression in his part of Kashmir, a mountainous territory mostly populated by Muslims for which the two countries have already fought two wars.

"The Pakistani military has solid information that they intend to do something in Pakistani Kashmir," Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Pakistan's Independence Day on Wednesday.

"They are ready and we will give them a firm response," he said in a speech in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir. "We have decided that if India commits a violation, we will fight to the end," he said. "It's time to teach you a lesson".

For his part, the chief of staff of the powerful Pakistani army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that his troops were "fully ready to play their part".

The change of tone is drastic on the Pakistani side, while Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said last Thursday that his country "(did not consider) the military option."

"We are looking at political, diplomatic and legal options," he said.

"What do you want me to do, that I'm attacking India?" Imran Khan was annoyed in front of the parliament, pointing to the consequences of a conflict between two nuclear powers.

The reasons for this turnaround were difficult to pin down Wednesday. Mr. Khan is criticized by the opposition for his "flip-flop" policy.

Tensions between the two neighboring countries are highest after New Delhi's decision to revoke ten days ago the constitutional autonomy of the part of Kashmir it controls and which Islamabad claims.

Hindu nationalists also made Parliament vote to dislocate the region.

These measures, which aim to place under a more direct supervision of this rebel region in New Delhi, have been described as "illegal" by Pakistan, the two countries fighting over Kashmir since their partition in 1947, at the end of British colonization. .

Islamabad had so far indicated that it wanted to take the case to the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court. Pakistan has also expelled the Indian ambassador and put an end to bilateral trade.

- Hindu Supremacy -

Since August 4, Indian Kashmir has been cut off from the world.

A blackout of communications and heavy traffic restrictions have been imposed by the Indian authorities.

Fearing mass demonstrations in a territory where a separatist insurrection has killed 70,000 people since 1989, New Delhi has also deployed an additional 80,000 paramilitaries.

According to the governor of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, the curfew imposed on Indian-controlled Kashmir will however be relaxed after Independence Day on Thursday, even if the phone and internet will be cut off.

On Tuesday, a spokesman for the Indian Ministry of Interior said on Twitter that the restrictions were "being gradually eased" in Jammu and Kashmir.

According to locals, this blockage has not prevented 8,000 people from demonstrating after Friday's prayer. The march was dispersed by security forces with tear gas and lead shots fired.

On Sunday, Imran Khan compared the inaction of the international community to the events in Kashmir to the silence surrounding Hitler's rise to Germany in the 1930s.

"The curfew, the repression and the impending Kashmiri genocide in India's occupied Kashmir is happening exactly according to the ideology of the SSR which was inspired by Nazi ideology," he had tweeted.

The RSS, or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Corps), is a Hindu ultranationalist movement, which its critics call a fascist anti-Muslim movement.

"The question is: will the world look and be conciliatory as it was with Hitler?" Asked the Pakistani prime minister.

Founded in 1925, the RSS is considered as the ideological mentor of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), party of the current Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

"I fear that this ideology of Hindu supremacy (...) will not stop in India-occupied Kashmir," the Pakistani prime minister added, referring to a "targeting of Pakistan, which is for Hindu supremacists." what was Hitler's Lebensraum ("living space", Ed.).

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