The army of Pakistan said it fell 28 out of 29 Harop Israeli manufacturing drones that crossed the country on Thursday.
New Delhi said it had destroyed a air defense system in Lahore.
Pakistan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar said drones “tried to attack military facilities” and “targeted civilians”, killing one and wounding four, with four army staff also injured.
Among the targeted cities was Rawalpindi, where the army has its head office. The city's cricket stadium was one of the premises of the Pakistani Super League, which later announced that its eight remaining games would be moved to the United Arab Emirates.
The residents of Lahore said they had heard the noise of the explosions and the air authorities briefly closed the operations of the main airport there and in the capital Islamabad.
Diplomats and world leaders have put pressure on the two countries to step back from the edge.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with leaders in the two countries on Thursday and urged the “immediate de -escalation”said his spokesperson.
US vice-president JD Vance later reiterated this call In a television interview, but added that Washington “was not going to get involved in the midst of a war that is fundamentally not of our business.”
Several countries have proposed to mediate, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met his Indian counterpart subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi on Thursday, a few days after his visit to Pakistan.
The Pakistani authorities insist that they have the right to retaliate against the initial strikes of India.
