Lahore: Pakistan and India have accused each other of having launched drone attacks Thursday, May 8, and the Minister of Defense of Islamabad said that new reprisals were “more and more some”, the second day of major clashes between nuclear arms neighbors.
Pakistan said that it had shot 25 India drones, while India said its air defenses had stopped Pakistani drones and missile attacks against military targets, hoping that they would soon bow to put their worst confrontation in more than two decades.
The United States’s global powers to Russia and China have called calm in one of the most dangerous and populated nuclear point regions in the world. The American consulate general of Pakistan Lahore ordered the staff to shelter in place.
Tensions between nuclear weapons neighbors have increased from armed men killed 26 peopleMainly Indian Hindu Tourists, in cashmere controlled by India last month. India has accused Pakistan of being behind the assault. Islamabad denies it.
Indian strikes killed 31 civiliansIncluding women and children, and injured around 50 others, according to Pakistani officials. More people have been killed on both sides of the border in heavy exchanges of fire that followed. It was their worst confrontation since 2019, when the rivals got closer to war.
Pakistan denied that One of the sites affected by India Wednesday, militant bases. He said he killed five Indian planes, a report that the Indian Embassy of Beijing rejected as “disinformation”.
Pakistani reprisals “are becoming more and more some now,” the Pakistani Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, told Reuters. “I will always refrain from saying that it is 100%. But the situation has become very difficult. We must answer.”
