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.

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

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