Australia Issues Strong Travel Warning as India-Pakistan Tensions Escalate

Australia urges citizens to reconsider travel to Pakistan amid high terror threat, unrest, and possible flight disruptions due to airspace closures.

Indian Border Security Force personnel (brown) and Pakistani Rangers (black) take part in the beating retreat ceremony at the border gates of India and Pakistan at the Wagah border post, about 35 km from Amritsar on April 25, 2025. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

Australia is urging citizens to reconsider travel to Pakistan after Indian military strikes targeted locations inside Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 6.

The advisory, issued on May 7 by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), follows a dramatic escalation in hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.