On Thursday, India and Pakistan exchanged accusations of carrying out attacks by drones, warning against responding strongly to any attack, as the two armed countries exchanged nuclear and had three wars before, the desire to reduce the escalation of tension between them.
The Indian Ministry of Defense reported the killing of 16 civilians, the wounding of 59, with a Pakistani artillery shelling, the Indian army deployed footage showing strikes on what he called terrorist camps in Pakistan, and the part of the Pakistan administration from Kashmir.
Two Hindi military speakers said, at a press conference, that the Indian forces attacked facilities linked to the “Army of Muhammad” and “Askar Taiba” group. Islamabad rejected the Indian allegations of the presence of terrorist camps on its soil, and pledged to respond to the Indian strikes.
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The Indian government said today, Thursday, that it neutralized an attempt by Pakistan to “attack military targets” in India using drones and missiles.
She also said that she responded in the same way targeting radars and air defense systems in a number of places in Pakistan, confirming in a statement that “a reliable manner was known that an air defense system was neutralized in Lahore.”
On Thursday night, artillery and machine guns between India and Pakistan took place along the border line between the two countries in the Kashmir region, according to New Delhi.
Today, Thursday morning, the Indian army said in a statement that the Pakistani army carried out an unjustified bombing of light and artillery weapons along the control line – which is practically the place of the border line between the two countries – in the sectors of the Cubora, Paramola, Uri and Anemour, adding that it was “a proportional response.”
Diplomacy, Indian Foreign Minister Superhamaniam Jaishhankar confirmed to his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqji, who is visiting India as part of Tehran’s mediation efforts, that New Delhi “does not intend to cause a new escalation”, but stressed that any attack by Pakistan will face a “very firm response.”
In Islamabad, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that his country will protect its sovereignty and the integrity of its territory, whatever the cost of it, and for every drop of blood that has been asked in Indian attacks.
Although the Pakistani federal government pledged to respond to the Indian strikes, Defense Minister Khawaja Mohamed Asif told the American newspaper “The New York Times” that his country was ready to calm tensions.
Sources of the island in Pakistan reported that one person was killed and another was injured, after pieces of Indian march fell in an agricultural field.
The Pakistani army spokesman, General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, announced that the air defenses had intercepted and dropped 12 Israeli -made aircraft, which penetrated the Pakistani airspace, considering that the provocative approach that India is taking endangered is at risk.
The Al -Jazeera correspondent had been quoted from a Pakistani source as saying that his country had brought down 25 Indian spy aircraft in separate areas, three of which were in Lahore, Tags and Choukwal in the Punjab region this morning, while the fourth was dropped in the southern Sindh region.
Since the April 22 attack, which killed 26 people in the Indian part of Kashmir, tension between the two countries who are litigated since the division of the country was escalated in 1947.
This tension turned into a military confrontation on Wednesday night, while international parties rushed to the mediation between the two parties or the at least call for restraint.
