India bombed several areas of Pakistan this Wednesday morningboth countries announced, leaving a balance of at least 3 dead and 12 injured according to Islamabadwhich promised to respond, in a context of maximum tension from the attack committed in the Indian Kashmir on April 22. Since that armed attack ended with the life of 26 men in the back of Cashmiro administered by India, the International community feared new clashes between the two nuclear powers.
“We have confirmed information of three dead civilians, including a child,” said Pakistani minister of Defense, Khawaja Asif, adding that India had “pointed against multiple objectives, all civilians.” Under anonymity, a security official declared the EFE agency that “India launched missile attacks against three points of Pakistan. The missiles were launched in the cities of Bahawalpur, Kotli and Muzaffarabad. “
India announced to have attacked alleged terrorist camps in Pakistan after midnight on Wednesday, in retaliation for the terrorist attack in the Kashmir controlled by India last April 22, for which New Delhi holds Islamabad. The so -called Sndoor operation included precision attacks against nine places in Pakistan Where, according to New Delhi, terrorist attacks against India were planned.
“An act of flagrant war”
Pakistan described the bombing made by India as “an act of flagrant and not caused war”, ensuring that the right to respond properly to aggression is reserved. “The Indian Air Force, remaining within the Indian Air Space, has violated Pakistan’s sovereignty using weapons of social distancingattacking the civilian population, “the Pakistan Foreign Ministry.
-The attacks occurred, according to the statement, “through the international border in Muridke and Bahawalpur, and through the control line in Kotli and Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmira” and caused “the death of civilians.” In this sense, the Ministry condemned “the cowardly action of India”, which described as a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and International Law, and the right to respond properly was reserved “at the time and place it deems appropriate.”
The Water War
The US president, Donald Trump, He said he hopes that the clashes between India and Pakistan “end very soon”. Shortly before those bombings, the US Department of State had reported that it called India and Pakistan to work to find a “responsible resolution” of their difference. Nueva Delhi had just threatened to “cut the water” from several rivers that are born in their territory and run through Pakistan in retaliation for the attack on April 22.
A day after that attack, India suspended its participation in a treaty signed in 1960 with Pakistan that establishes that both must share the control of the six basin basin of Kashmira that converge downstream in the Indo River, in Pakistan. The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, warned that “the course of” water belonging to India that until now ran to the outside, will stop. “
For his part, the irrigation minister of the Pakistani region of Punyab, Kazim Pirzada, indicated that they had “noticed changes in the Chenab that have nothing natural” and that “the flow of the river, normal, was considerably reduced from one day to another.” Several experts fear an open military confrontation between these two nuclear powers. For at least 10 nights, Indian and Pakistani soldiers open fire with light weapons on the border.
