Islamabad, Pakistan (AP) – India said that it had targeted the Pakistani military bases after Islamabad fired several high -speed missiles in several Indian air bases in the country's state of the country early on Saturday, but is committed to non -escalale if Pakistan is remunerated.
This is the last escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre Last month that India blames Pakistan.
Pakistan said earlier that he had intercepted most of the missiles targeting three air bases and that the reprisals on India were underway.
Indian colonel Sofiya Qureshi at a press conference in New Delhi said Pakistan has also targeted health establishments and schools in its three air bases at Kashmir controlled by India. “The convincing response was given to Pakistani actions,” she said.
The commander of the Vyomika Singh wing, who was also present at the press conference, said that India was determined at “non-escalale, provided that the Pakistani part”. However, Pakistani land forces have been observed mobilizing towards areas in the future, she said, “indicating an offensive intention for additional escalation.”
“The Indian armed forces remain in a high state of operational preparation,” she added.
Singh said the Indian armed forces have made “precision strikes only on military targets identified in response to Pakistani actions”.
“All hostile actions were actually countered and responded in proportion to proportionately,” she said.
The actions of the Pakistani army were the “provocation” and the response of India was “measured,” said Foreign Minister Vikram Misri.
The Pakistani army said that it had used medium -range Fateh missiles to target an Indian missile storage installation and bases in the cities of Pathankot and Udhampur.
The Associated Press could not independently verify all the actions allocated to Pakistan or India.
The army spokesman, Lieutenant-General Ahmad Sharif, said that Air Force active in Pakistan were safe after Indian strikes, adding that some of the Indian missiles also hit the eastern punjab of India.
“This is a provocation of the higher order,” said Sharif. There was no immediate comment from India.
Pakistan television managed by the State has announced that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the National Command Authority, the organization responsible for supervising the country's missile program and other strategic assets.
Tensions between nuclear rivals have soaked from a Attack on a popular tourist site In cashmere controlled by India, cashmere left 26 dead civilians, mainly Hindu Indian tourists on April 22. New Delhi blamed Pakistan to support the assaultAn accusation rejects that Islamabad.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Friday with the Pakistani army chief Asim Murnir.
The spokesperson for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, said that Rubio continued to urge both parties to “find means to de-escalation and offered us assistance to start constructive talks” in order to avoid future conflicts.
The call to CALM was before the Indian missile strikes on Saturday, which targeted Nur Khan's air base in the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, the Murid air base in Chakwal City and the Rafiqui air base in the Jhang district, in the province of Punjab, according to the military spokesman for Pakistan.
There was no media access to the air base in Rawalpindi, a densely populated city, and no immediate report of residents hearing or seeing the strike or its consequences.
After the announcement of Pakistani reprisals, residents of cashmere under Indian control said they had heard noisy explosions in several places in the region, including the two major cities of Srinagar and Jammu, and the city of Garrison d'Udhampur.
“The explosions we hear today are different from those we have heard the last two nights during drone attacks,” said Shesh Paul Vaid, former senior police officer in the region and Jammu resident. “It looks like a war here.”
Vaid said explosions have been heard in military bases, adding that it seemed like the army sites were targeted.
Srinagar seemed calm early Saturday, but some residents of neighborhoods close to the city's airport, which is also an air base, said they had been shaken by explosions and the booming sound of fighter planes.
“I was already awake, but the explosions sang my children from their sleep. They started to cry,” said Mohammed Yasin, a resident of Srinagar, adding that he had heard at least two explosions.
Praveen Quali, principal analyst of the Group Crisis International for India, said that the two countries were at war even if they had not yet qualified him as.
“It has become a breed without remorse for a military increase without a apparent strategic goal on each side,” said whoseii. “With the increase in civilian victims on both sides, finding an exit or an exit ramp will be difficult.”
The army of India said that it has destroyed several armed Pakistani drones that were spotted on a military cantonment in the city of Amritsar in the northern Punjab early on Saturday.
“Pakistan's blatant attempt to violate India's sovereignty and endanger civilians is unacceptable,” the statement said.
In Pakistan, civil aviation Authority closed the country's airports for all flight operations and the inhabitants of major cities were seen singing slogans supporting the armed forces.
“Thank goodness, we finally responded to the Indian assault,” said Muhammad Ashraf, who headed for breakfast in the eastern city of Lahore.
The Indian army said on Friday evening that drones had been seen in 26 places in many regions of the Indian states bordering Pakistan and the cashmere controlled by India, including Srinagar. He said drones were followed and committed.
“The situation is under close and constant surveillance, and rapid measures are taken wherever necessary,” added the press release.
India and Pakistan have exchanged strikes and heavy cross -border shots for days, causing civilian victims on both sides.
The group of seven nations, or G7, urged the “maximum restraint” of India and Pakistan. He warned on Friday that a new military escalation was a serious threat to regional stability.
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Hussain reported to Srinagar, India. The writers of the Associated Press Rajesh Roy in New Delhi, Babar Dogar in Lahore, Pakistan, Asim Tanveer in Multan, Pakistan, and Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this story.
