India and Pakistan both claim the border region of Kashmir, but administer different parts of the disputed territory the countries have already fought two wars over.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded to the attack by saying his country's "blood boils" and that he had set the military free to respond however it saw fit.
Pakistan then wrote to hospitals on February 20 to arrange a plan for medical support in the event that fighting breaks out, the Times of India reported .
The letter called for hospitals to earmark 25% of their beds for injured soldiers, to prepare for expanding their capacity to house patients, and to plan on shifting them around and away from the front lines during fighting, according to the Times of India.
"We have no intention to initiate war, but we will respond with full force to full spectrum threat that would surprise you," Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor told Reuters from the city of Rawalpindi. "Don't mess withPakistan."
Nuclear rivals on the brink
The UN on Friday "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly suicide bombing" in Kashmir and called out Jaish-e-Mohammed by name.
Pakistan banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2002, but on Friday, they knew exactly where to find the terror group. Authorities "took control" of the terror group in Bahawalpur and appointed an administrator to look after its affairs, according to its government.
Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters hosted a seminary with 600 students and 70 teachers, it said.
The Kashmir issue and other regional issues have kept India and Pakistan on the edge of war for decades, but in recent years things have taken a turn for the worse.
Today, both Pakistan and India have grown in nationalist fervor, with online militias on Facebook and elsewhere lusting for blood and mocking each other's militaries and nations.
India and Pakistan developed nuclear arsenals to deter each other from fighting, but small cross border raids and violence have been common for years.
Furthermore, both Pakistan and India's nuclear-armed backers have taken sides in the conflict already.
China and US picking sides?
Pakistan famously hosted Osama Bin Ladin for years before a 2011 US raid took him out in Abbottabad. Iran blamed a terror attack that killed 27 members of its elite Revolutionary Guards on a Pakistan man in February.
India's Modi seeks re-election this year and has built a name for himself as a strong Hindu nationalist. Christopher Clary, an international affairs expert and professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University of Albany, previously told Business Insider the situation could quickly spiral out of control due to political pressure on both sides.
"We don't have that many countries with nuclear weapons that share a common border, so things can get pretty hairy," said Clary.
