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In a televised speech, Mr. Khan called on India to provide evidence to support his claims that Pakistan would be involved.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his country would react if India engaged in military action against it in the aftermath of last week's suicide attack on Indian forces in Indian-administered Kashmir.
In a televised speech, he also asked India to provide evidence in support of his claims that Pakistan would be involved.
More than 40 members of the Indian security forces died in Thursday's suicide bombing.
A militant group based in Pakistan, Jaish-e-Mohammad, said that he was behind this.
The attack raised tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, which waged two wars and limited conflict in the region.
In his first remarks on the attack of an activist in Kashmir, Mr. Khan said that India should "stop blaming Pakistan without any evidence or evidence" and said that only dialogue could help solve the problems in Kashmir.
"Any adventurism of India to threaten the sovereignty of Pakistan will provoke retaliation," he said.
Khan said that he had not approached the attack earlier because of the much-publicized visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Pakistan this weekend.
The Pakistani Prime Minister, elected last year, said his government was ready to cooperate with Delhi to investigate the attack.
Mr Khan said that India should "examine in detail" the causes of violence in Kashmir and realize that there could be "military solution".
Earlier Tuesday, the top Indian military commander in Kashmir accused the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of "controlling" the attack last week.
"The ISI, Pakistan and the commanders of Jaish-e-Mohammad have controlled it from everywhere," said Lieutenant-General KJS Dhillon about the bombing. He has not provided any evidence of his accusation, but India has long accused Pakistan of supporting militant separatists in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The kamikaze who led last Thursday's attack was identified as a young man from Indian-administered Kashmir. On Monday, India killed three militants in a shootout that it said belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammad. Four Indian soldiers and a policeman died in the shooting.
- Soldiers killed as tensions in Kashmir rise
India and Pakistan claim all members of Kashmir with a Muslim majority, but only control parts of it.
The bombing of Thursday's convoy was the deadliest attack against Indian forces in the region for decades.
Pakistan has firmly denied any role, but India has accused the state of being an accomplice and has pledged to isolate its neighbor at the international level.
Until now, India has focused on retaliation through economic and diplomatic means. It revoked the most favored nation trade status of Pakistan and increased customs duties to 200%.
Both countries recalled the best diplomats.
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