New Delhi: India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fires along their contested border on Wednesday, May 7 after New Delhi launched dead missile strikes On his arc rival, in the worst violence between nuclear neighbors in two decades.
At least 38 deaths were reported, Islamabad saying that 26 civilians had been killed by Indian strikes and pulling along the border, while New Delhi reported 12 dead to Pakistani bombing.
India said that it had struck nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites, some of them linked to an attack by armed men on Hindu tourists who killed 26 people in Indian cashmere last monthWith New Delhi, adding that his actions “have been concentrated, measured and not climbed”.
The Indian strikes included targets in Punjab, its first attacks against the most populous province in Pakistan since the last large-scale war between the ancient enemies more than half a century ago, trigger fears of new hostilities In one of the most dangerous flash points in the world.
The Pakistani Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Moda of having launched strikes to “consolidate” his domestic popularity, adding that Islamabad “will not take long to settle the score”.
Islamabad has undertaken to answer “at a time, a place and a way of choosing to avenge the loss of innocent Pakistani lives and the flagrant violation of its sovereignty”, while a government security committee rejected the Indian allegations of the presence of terrorist camps on its territory.
Military spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said five Indian planes had been slaughtered across the border, but that was not confirmed by India.
Sources of local government in Indian cashmere have told Reuters that three fighter planes had crashed in separate areas of the Himalayan region overnight and that their pilots had been hospitalized, but those responsible for the Indian Defense Ministry had not yet confirmed this.
The Indian Embassy of Beijing later called on reports of fighter aircraft killed by the “disinformation” of Pakistan.
In Muzaffarabad, the main city of Kashmir administered by Pakistan, troops curly in the streets around an Islamabad mosque have been struck, with explosion brands visible on the walls of several neighboring houses.
The United Nations military observers arrived on Wednesday afternoon to inspect the site, which was exploded on one side.
Pakistan also said that a hydroelectric power station in cashmere was also targeted by India, damaging a dam structure, after India threatened to stop the flow of water on its side of the border.
Islamabad had previously warned that the falsification of rivers flowing in its territory would be an “act of war”.
The last violence exceeds India strikes in 2019 when New Delhi said she had struck “several activists” after a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of the Indian security force, killing 40.
India had been largely supposed to respond militarily to the attack of April 22 against the Kashmir tourists administered by the Indians by armed men, it said that the group based in Pakistan Lashkar-E-Taiba, an unintegrated terrorist organization.
New Delhi blamed Islamabad for having supported the attack, triggering a series of stormy threats and diplomatic tat-tat measures, while Pakistan rejected accusations in the midst of calls for an independent investigation.
According to AIIC correspondent in New DelhiModi held a complete meeting of the cabinet on Wednesday afternoon, members of the information on the military operation that was carried out overnight.
The Ministry of India in India, head of internal security, asked the paramilitary forces to return from leave and be on standby.
