The Ministry of Defense of India stated in an announcement on Wednesday that at least nine places were directed “where terrorist attacks on India were planned” and that no Pakistani military facilities were targeted.
“Our actions have been concentrated, measured and non-escalators. Nature. No Pakistan military facilities were targeted. India showed a significant limitation of the choice of goals and method of implementation.”
A photograph of the armed forces issued by Pakistan, which he thinks shows that an individual treated due to injuries in the hospital in Bahawalpur after an Indian attack.Loan: Inter Services Public Relations via AP
The Indian army in the post on the social media platform x wrote: “Justice is served.”
Sharif condemned the raids. “Pakistan has the full right to give a solid response to this act of war imposed by India, and a strong answer is actually given,” said Sharif, adding that the country and his armed forces “know very well how to deal with the enemy.”
Pakistani security officials said that the missiles were released on the territory controlled by Pakistan in at least three locations. Indian television channels showed video from explosion, fire, large pools of smoke in the night sky and escaping people. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the material.
Pakistan’s military spokesman said that six locations were hit by 24 “effects”. He said that eight Pakistani were killed, 35 wounded and two were lost. Earlier, the army said that at least two mosques were hit and at least one child died.
Residents and media in a constructing damaged by a suspicious rocket attack near Muzaffrabad in Pakistan on Wednesday.Loan: AP
According to 3 Pakistani security officials, shells hit the location in Kashmir for the administrator of Pakistan and in the eastern province of Pendżab in Pakistan. One of the officials said that one hit the mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Pendjab, where the child was killed and the woman and the man were injured.
A spokesman for the Pakistani army General Ahmad Sharif told Ary News that the missiles were fired from the Indian territory and that no Indian plane entered the Pakistani airspace.
“It was a cowardly attack directed to innocent civilians under the cover of darkness,” said Sharif for the sender.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan stated that other locations were near Muridke in Pendjab and Kotla in Kashmir controlled by Pakistan.
It was found that the attack reportedly resulted in civil victims and was a serious threat to industrial air traffic. “This reckless escalation brought two nuclear armed states to a serious conflict,” he said.
On Wednesday, in the Muzaffrabad mountains, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, they heard many loud explosions, in addition to in two other places in the region, reported by Reuters witnesses and the Pakistani television channel. Witnesses said that after the explosions Muzaffrabada power was darkened.
Security officials in front of a damaged constructing near Muzaffrabad.Loan: AP
Witnesses and one policeman in two places on the border in Indian Kashmir said that that they had heard loud explosions and intensive artillery fire, in addition to jet in the air.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday afternoon in Washington that Indian strikes were “shame”.
“They have been fighting for a long time,” he said. “I just hope it ends very quickly.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was rigorously monitored.
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The UN spokesman said that the secretary general Anónio Guterres was very concerned about Indian military operations on the control and international border line and called for max military restraint.
“The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan,” said the spokesman.
Strikes appear amongst increased tensions between the neighbors armed by nuclearies after an attack on Hindu tourists in Indian cashmere last month wherein 26 people were killed.
Bloomberg announced that before Wednesday strikes, the defense minister Asif warned against the “approaching” clash with India as a dispute over river water and blame for the terrorist attack of Kahsmir. Earlier on that day Pakistani officials said that India almost completely stopped the water flow across the border through the Chenab River.
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