Singapore: At least 38 people died while India and Pakistan clashed in cashmere on Wednesday May 7.
After India launched missile strikes in Pakistan, the two parties exchanged heavy artillery fire along their disputed north border.
The worst violence between nuclear weapons neighbors in two decades occurred two weeks after New Delhi accused Islamabad of having supported an attack on the side led by the disputed cashmere Indians who killed 26 people.
Pakistan rejected the accusation and called for an independent investigation into murders.
Here's how Pakistan responded to the crisis.
“ODIOUS”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif described the strikes of India an “deceased act of aggression” which “would not be unpunished”.
The country's National Security Committee (NSC), which convened an emergency meeting led by Sharif and assisted by the Chief of Staff of the Army Asim Munir, called on the international community to keep India “responsible”.
“The NSC calls on the international community to recognize the severity of the uninsured illegal actions of India and to hold it responsible for its blatant violations of international standards and laws,” the committee said in a statement published by its Prime Minister's office.
The Committee said that India “had ignited hell in the region”, and that Pakistan would respond to the strikes “at the same time, at one point and in a way of choosing to avenge the loss of innocent Pakistani lives and flagrant violation of its sovereignty”.
The Committee has also forcefully rejected the allegations of India that there are terrorist camps on Pakistani territory.
“Reprisals have already started”
The Pakistani Minister of Defense, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, accused the Prime Minister Narendra Moda of having launched strikes to “consolidate” his domestic popularity, but said that Islamabad had retaliated.
“Reprisals have already started,” AFP said. “We will not take long to settle the score.”
Pakistan said 21 civilians had been killed in India strikes – four children – while five were killed by the border. India said that at least 12 people had been killed by Pakistani bombings.
Pakistani military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said five Indian planes had been slaughtered across the border, while a source of Indian main security said that three of India's fighter planes crushed on the territory of origin.
