By Gibran Naiyar Peshimam and Ariba Shahid
Islamabad / New Delhi (Reuters) -Pakistan said that he had launched a military operation against India early Saturday, targeting several bases, including a missile storage site in northern India while the neighbors extended their worst fights in almost three decades.
Pakistan said that its offensive India has pulled missiles on three air bases, including close to the capital, Islamabad, but Pakistani air defenses intercepted most of them.
Establish in a long -standing dispute in cashmere, the two countries have embarked on daily clashes since Wednesday, when India has launched strikes inside Pakistan on what it called “terrorist infrastructure”. Pakistan has sworn to retaliate.
“Brahmos' storage site has been withdrawn from the Beas General Zone,” Pakistan army said in a message to journalists, adding that Pathankot aerodrome in the western Punjab state of India and the Udhampur Air Force station in Indian Cashmire have also been affected.
The Ministries of Defense and Foreigners of India did not immediately respond to a request for comments outside regular working hours. The soldiers of India had to inform the media shortly, said the Ministry of Defense in a media opinion.
The Minister of Information of Pakistan declared in an article on the social media site X that the military operation had been appointed “Operation Bunyanun Marsoos”. The term is taken from the Koran and means a firm and united structure.
The Minister of Pakistan said on local television that “special measures” had been taken to avoid civilian targets and that they were targeting locations that had been used to target Pakistan.
The Pakistani army said the Prime Minister called a National Command Authority meeting, a higher body of civilian and military officials, which oversees decisions on its nuclear arsenal.
Sounds of explosions have been reported in Srinagar and Jammu of India, where the sirens were selected, said a witness to Reuters.
“India, through its planes, has launched Air-Surface missiles … Nur Khan Base, Mureed Base and Shorkot Base have been made,” said Pakistan military spokesperson, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, in a TV declaration late at night.
The Chief Minister of Indian Cashmire Omar Abdullah said in a statement that a local administration manager had been killed by bombings in Adjouri, near the control line which divides the contested region.
One of the three air bases which, according to Pakistan, were targeted by India is in the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, just outside the Islamabad capital. The other two are in the Pakistani oriental province of Punjab, which borders India.
The Pakistani military spokesman said that only a few missiles had passed past aerial defenses, and that they had not succeeded in “air active ingredients”, according to initial damage assessments.
India said its strikes on Wednesday, which started clashes between countries, were in retaliation for a deadly attack on Hindu Tourists in Indian cashmere last month.
Pakistan denied the accusations of India that it was involved in the tourist attack. Since Wednesday, the two countries have exchanged cross -border shots and bombings and sent drones and missiles in the other airspace.
Friday, a large part of the fights was in Indian cashmere and the states bordering Pakistan. India said that it had shot Pakistani drones.
Friday, the group of seven countries urged the maximum reservoir both in India and Pakistan and called them to engage in a direct dialogue. The United Kingdom High Commissioner in Pakistan, Jane Marriott, said in a press release on the X social media platform that they were closely monitoring developments.
Sounds of explosions have also been heard in the Pakistani city eastern Lahore and in the northwest city of Peshawar, while the fights threatened to spread.
At least 48 people have been killed since Wednesday, according to injury estimates on both sides of the border which have not been verified independently.
(Report of Gibran Peshimam in Islamabad, Ariba Shahid in Karachi, Aif Shahzad in Muzaffarabad, Charlotte Greenfield in Islamabad, Shivam Patel in New Delhi, Aftab Ahmed in Jammu and Fayaz Bukhari in Srinagar; Writing by Charlotte Greenfield and Gibran Wong and Edmund Klamann)
