Pakistan says India has pulled ballistic missiles on three air bases inside Pakistan early Saturday morning. An army spokesperson says most of the missiles have been intercepted.
The Pakistani media led by the State claim that retaliation strikes were already underway to target “multiple locations” in India. The Pakistani media have not developed more on the attacked locations.
Islamabad says that all of his Air Force assets were safe and that no significant damage was caused by the attacks on his bases. Army spokesman Ahmad Sharif said that renewed attacks are a “highest order provocation”.
The Indian missiles were intended for the Nur Khan air base located in the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, at Murid air base in the city of Chakwal and at the Rafiqui air base in the District of Jhang, in the eastern province of Punjab – according to Sharif.
India has not responded to the accusations of Pakistan.
Some of the Indian missiles have struck the Indian province of Punjab of India. Sharif added that the projectiles also went to neighboring Afghanistan. The army spokesman noted that they were in possession of evidence to support these complaints.
“I want to give you the shocking news that India has drawn six ballistic missiles from his city of Adampur,” said Sharif. One of the ballistic missiles struck Adampur, the remaining five missiles struck the Indian area of the Punjab of Amritsar. “”
The tensions climbed after a Pahalgam attack on the cashmere administered by the Indians killed 26 people on April 22, mainly tourists. New Delhi blamed Islamabad for “supporting the assault,” said Pakistan has refuted.
On Wednesday, India carried out air strikes on several locations in the Pakistani territory, which he identified as associates with activists, killing 31 civilians, as reported by Pakistani officials. In response, Islamabad said he had killed five Indian fighter planes.
JD Vance urges the two parties to defuse
Addressing the American media, Vice-President JD Vance said that Washington would not be involved in the conflict between the two nuclear powers of South Asia, but stressed that the United States encourages both parties to seek peace and to defuse.
“We want this thing to defuse itself as quickly as possible. We can try to encourage these people to defuse a little, but we are not going to get involved in the middle of the war which are basically not our business,” said Vance.
Vance noted that Washington cannot tell one or the other country to stop fighting, but will do what he can achieve peace, through diplomatic channels.
“America cannot tell the Indians to put their arms. We cannot tell the Pakistani to put their arms. And so we will continue to continue this thing through diplomatic channels,” noted Vance.
“Our hope and our expectation is that it will not transform in a broader regional war or, God preserves us, a nuclear conflict.”
Additional sources • AP
