Pakistan’s armed forces announced this Friday missile attacks to several positions of India, in addition to other statements of successful attacks against key Indian military facilities, in Islamabad’s first response against New Delhi Since the attack last Wednesday.
According to the Pakistani army statement, Pakistan destroyed a Brahmos missile warehouse and The Udhampur Air Base, In addition to the Pathankot airfield.
Since Wednesday, when India bombarded alleged “terrorist” fields in Pakistan, the two countries in southern Asia are immersed in missile cross attacksartillery and drones that have killed more than 50 civilians.
Hostilities began with an attack on April 22 in the Indian part of the disputed region of Cashmere in which 26 tourists died. Nueva Delhi responsible for the attack on Islamabad, who denied the accusations.
This Friday, shortly before dawn, the heat of the conflict He arrived in the capital of Pakistanwith two strong explosions that shook Islamabad and the neighboring city of Rawalpindi, headquarters of the Army and intelligence services.
In a televised appearance in the middle of the night, the Pakistani army spokesman, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, He informed that India had “attacked with missiles” three air bases, including Nur Khan’s, in Rawalpindi.
“Most missiles” were intercepted and “no aerial assets” was damaged, said Chaudhry. “Now simply wait for our response,” he warned of the Indian authorities.
The Kashmir dispute
India and Pakistan They have fought three large -scale wars From the British partition and independence in 1947, two of them for disputes on the sovereignty of Kashmir.
This Muslim majority territory was divided by the strongly militarized control line, but both countries claim it as their own.
Several insurgent groups act in the area claiming independence or annexation to Pakistan, whom New Delhi accuses of support these organizations.
Insurgent operations intensified since 2019, when the Indian government of the Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi revoked the limited autonomy of Kashmir and put it under direct control of New Delhi.
But for the first time in more than 50 years, analysts underline, these clashes went beyond the region in dispute And Indian attacks hit other areas of Pakistan.
“It is very unfortunate that India’s reckless behavior has brought the two states with nuclear weapons to a great conflict,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, Shafqat Ali Khan.
In the last two days, the Indian army accused Pakistan of attacking three military bases, two in back and one in the Indian state of Punyab, and of launch several drones waves against its territory.
According to a military spokeswoman in New Delhi, Pakistan would have launched “from 300 to 400 drones”an impossible statement to verify independently.
The Pakistani army denied having bombarded military bases and accused India of warping false drones attacks against their territory.
Islamabad military sources also said that their forces They had dejected 77 Indian drones In the last two days. The teams of the AFP They could see the remains of some devices in several cities in the country.
-Hostilities are priming with the civilian population on both sides, although most of the dead occurred in Pakistan during the first night of Indian bombing.
On Friday, the Pakistani authorities reported five dead civilians, among them a two -year -old girl, for actions of New Delhi near the control line that separates Kashmir.
On his side, a police officer in the part of this region administered by India reported a dead woman and two men injured by an intense night bombardment in URIabout 100 kilometers from the state capital, Srinagar.
Airports and closed schools
The international community claimed moderation and countries such as Iran or United Kingdom They have been offered to mediate between both parties.
The head of the US diplomacy, Marco Rubio, urged a decalm to be exhorted and urged Islamabad to End any support for “terrorist groups.”
New Delhi imputes the April attack on the jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)an organization qualified by the UN as “terrorist”, based in Pakistan. Islamabad denies Indian accusations and demands independent investigation.
The conflict has disturbed air traffic. Numerous airlines They canceled flights Or they turned to longer routes to avoid flying those countries.
India closed 24 airports, Although local media point to a possible reopening on Saturday. And schools on both sides of the border are closed, affecting millions of children.
Continue ‘operation Bunyanun Marsoos’ against India
Pakistan announced the continuation of his attacks with retaliation missiles against India, called ‘Operación Bunyanun Marsoos’, They have as its objective multiple Indian military bases, and that constitutes the greatest escalation between the nuclear powers since the Kargil War in 1999.
“The JF-17 Thunder Missiles of the Pakistan Air Force destroyed the S-400 System of India in Adampur,” he said to EFE A source of the Pakistani army.
The ‘Operación Bunyanun Marsoos‘It was announced today by Islamabad in response to an Indian air attack undertaken last Wednesday against several locations in Pakistanwhich had as its alleged terrorist bases that attack India with support from the Pakistani state.
Islamabad denies that statement and ensures that India’s target They were civilians.
Pakistani army sources They assure that since the launch of their operation this morning, their forces have destroyed a warehouse of the Brahmos missile- a supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia- located in Amritsar, in the state of Punjab, north of India.
In addition, they indicated that the aeródromo de Suratgarhbelonging to the Indian Air Force and located in Sri Ganganagar, in the state of Rajastán, west of India, has been attacked.
This adds to the previous statements of the Pakistani army on the destruction of the Udhampur Air Base, located in the territory of the Jammu and Kashmirand the Pathankot airfield, also in Punjab.
All these military facilities are in northern India, near the border with Pakistan.
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