What is known about the “Sindoor Operation”, the Indian missile attack on Pakistan who left at least 26 dead and that Islamabad promised that it will not be unpunished

Two weeks after the deadly militant attack on tourists in the Cashmiro region administered by India, this country has launched a series of bombings in Pakistan and in the Kashmir area administered by Pakistan.

According to the official report, at least 26 people died in the Indian air attack.

The Indian defense minister said Wednesday that the bombings – of the so -called Sndoor Operation – are part of the “commitment” to make people responsible “to the people who perpetrated the attack of April 22, which caused the death of 25 Indian citizens and a Nepali.

But Pakistan, who has denied any responsibility in the fact, has described air incursions as “not caused.”

Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, noted that this “atrocious attack of aggression will not be unpunished.”

Pakistan’s army said he had demolished five Indian war planes and a drone. So far, an Indian response is not known.

Pakistan’s army spokesman, General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, noted that at least 26 people had died and another 46 had been injured.

For his part, India reported the death of 10 people in his country due to advances of the Pakistani army on the border.

In BBC Mundo we explain to you what is known until now of this tension between both nations.

India said that nine positions in Pakistan and the Cashmiro area administered by Pakistan were the target of the air attacks in the early hours of Wednesday.

And he noted that the whites were part of the “terrorist infrastructure” where attacks against India “planned and produced.”

The government in New Delhi said that it did not attacked military facilities in its neighboring country and added that its actions “have been focused, measures and without climbing.”

According to the Pakistan government, three areas of the country were affected by the attacks: Muzaffarabad and Kotli, in the Cashmiro region administered by Pakistan, and Bahawalpur, in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

His defense minister, Khawaja Asif, told the GEOTV television network that the attacks reached civil areas and added that India’s claims were false that the attacked whites were “terrorist camps.”

The advanced Indian occurs weeks after an increase in tensions between the two countries – which have nuclear programs – and after the attacks that left 26 tourists dead in the picturesque vacation populated in Pahalgam.

In those events of April 22, for which a group of extremist militants is responsible, 26 people died, with witnesses who claim that the attackers were particularly pointing to Hindu men within the group.

This is the worst attack against civilians in the region in about 20 years and generated a wave of strong rejections in India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the country would persecute the suspects “until the end of the world” and that those who planned and carried out will receive “an unimaginable punishment.”

However, India has not identified any group suspected of perpetrating the attack in Pahalgam.

But the Indian police have claimed that two of the attackers were Pakistani citizens, and Delhi points to Pakistan of supporting extremist militants, an accusation that Islamabad denies.

The Pakistani authorities have indicated that they have nothing to do with the attacks on April 22.

In the two weeks since then, both countries have taken reprisals, including the expulsion of diplomats, the suspension of visas and the closure of border crossings.

But many already expected the situation to climb until it became a kind of transnational attack, as had been seen after the attacks of pulwama, which left 40 Indian paramilitaries dead in 2019.

Kashmira is in full claimed by India and Pakistan, but only partially administered by each of them since its partition after the independence of Great Britain, in 1947.

Both countries have fought two wars for her.

But more recently, it has been the attacks of extremist militants that have led countries to the edge of the abyss.

The Kashmiro administered by India has been the scene of an armed insurgency against the Indian government since 1989, with extremists that attack both security forces and civil population.

This year was the first large -scale attack against civilians since India revoked article 370, which granted Cashmiro the semi -autonomous status in 2019.

After the decision, the region was the scene of protests, but also of a decline in radical militancy and a huge increase in the number of tourists who visit it.

In 2016, after the death of 19 Indian soldiers in URI, India launched “preventive and specific attacks” through the control line – the de facto border between India and Pakistan – against centers of operations of extremist militants.

In 2019, the pulwama attack, which left 40 dead Indian paramilitaries, resulted in air attacks in Balakot-in what was the first action of this type in Pakistan since 1971-, and this triggered reprisal incursions and an air combat.

None of these attacks led to something more serious, but the whole world is now on alert to what could happen an escalation occurred. Various governments and diplomats around the world have tried to stop the deterioration of relations from the current situation.

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has already requested “maximum moderation”, while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he hoped that the fighting “end very soon.”

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