Pakistan PM has warned of revenge but can he retaliate through military action against India?

Sahabaz is facing too many problems including increasing attacks by Baloch rebels

- BY NITYA CHAKRABORTY

More than forty hours have passed since the missile strikes by Indian military on the nine terror camp sites in Pakistan.

The situation in both New Delhi and Islamabad is witnessing the same type of preparations indicating that Pakistan is getting ready for another military confrontation with India after the Kargil war in 1999. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a nationwide address on Wednesday night warned India that it will avenge " each drop of the blood of our martyrs". Army Chief General Asim Munir along with two other chiefs was authorized to take corresponding retaliatory action against India.

In Pakistan, the scenario is similar on the line Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced the situation after the Pahalgam massacre on April 22 in which 25 Hindu tourists and one local Muslim were brutally shot to death by the terrorists with Pak links. The entire country including the political parties were calling for revenge against Pakistan. PM Modi through his remarks in a political meeting in Bihar and later at a series of meetings with the military chiefs expressed his unambiguous determination to retaliate. There was no other option apart from striking at the Pakistani terror sites after all what he was saying.