Tensions between India and Pakistan flared up after Pakistan’s newly-appointed army chief warned that any "misadventure" by the neighboring country will be met with "full might."

According to Yeni Safak, Gen. Asim Munir, who has recently taken the charge from his predecessor Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, issued the warning during his visit to the Line of Control (LoC), a de facto border that divides the disputed Kashmir valley between the two nuclear neighbors, earlier this week.

The fresh warning followed separate statements from Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, and Lt. Gen. Upendra Dwivedi, the general officer commanding-in-chief of the Indian army’s northern command, on the status of the disputed Kashmir valley and the Gilgit-Baltistan region near the China border.

Singh, in October, said he hoped to have Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region soon to complete the mission the BJP government began by annexing the Indian-administered Kashmir in Aug. 2019, inviting ire from the international community, mainly Islamabad's longtime ally, China.

Endorsing Singh's statement, Gen. Dwivedi, last week, said the army was fully ready to implement the government's decision.

Munir said the military is ready to defend the country if attacked.

“We have noticed highly irresponsible statements from Indian leadership on GB and AJK (Azad Jammu and Kashmir) recently. Let me make it categorically clear, Pakistan's armed forces are ever ready, not only to defend every inch of our motherland but to take the fight back to the enemy, if ever, war is imposed on us,” said Munir, a former head of the country's premier intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to a statement from the military.

“Any misconception resulting into a misadventure will always be met with the full might of our armed forces backed by a resilient nation,” he was further quoted as saying.

India, he went on to say, will never be able to achieve its "nefarious" designs.

He urged the international community to ensure "justice and deliver what is promised to the Kashmiri people as per UN resolutions."