Pakistan is conducting a military operation in a strategically located area bordering India, With Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif and the army chief examining the willingness of the army and the air force to deal with any position amid increasing tension with India.

The exercises are taking place near border close to Bahawalpur town in Punjab province.

Officials said that "the Prime Minister is the chief guest at the exercise."

Army chief General Raheel Sharif will also witness the exercise.

Helicopter gunships and area troops will take part in the action, which comes just days after seven Pakistani soldiers were killed along the Line of Control(LoC).

The action shows the state of a willingness of Pakistani military to deal with any circumstances emerging out of recent tension with India, according to security officials.

Prime Minister Sharif said on Tuesday that "Pakistan cannot be bullied by Indian tactics and its restraint should not be misunderstood as weakness, warning that his country was fully capable of defending against any belligerence".

Showing grief over the death of the seven soldiers, Sharif had said "deliberate escalation of tension along LoC by Indian forces is a threat to regional peace and security."

"It is also a futile attempt of the Indian authorities to divert the world's attention from the worst kind of atrocities they are committing" in Kashmir, he had said.

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BY M. DIVYA SRI