Lahore, Pakistan (AP) – India fired drones from attack in Pakistan on Thursday, with a blessing four soldiers, said the Pakistani army, one day after missiles struck several locations And killed more than two dozen people. Several drones have been slaughtered, officials said.
A few hours after the first drone attacks, the Indian Defense Ministry announced that it was targeting air defense systems in several places in Pakistan, but did not say if he used drones.
Tensions between nuclear weapons neighbors have increased from armed men killed 26 peopleMainly Indian Hindu Tourists, in cashmere controlled by India last month. India has accused Pakistan of being behind the assault. Islamabad denies it.
Indian strike Wednesday killed 31 civilians, including women and children, according to Pakistani officials. More people have been killed on both sides of the border in heavy exchanges of fire that followed. It was their worst confrontation since 2019, when the rivals got closer to war.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has promised to avenge death in strikes, which raises fears that the two countries are going to another total conflict.
The relationship between India and Pakistan was shaped by the conflict and mutual suspicion, More particularly in their competing claims in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. They fought Two of their three wars on Cashmerewhich is divided between them and claimed by the two in its entirety.
A large hole is seen on the roof of a house suspected of having been damaged during the Indian drone attack while the residents, behind, gather near a off -site curly, where the Pakistan air defense system killed an alleged Indian drone in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, May 8, 2025.
A boy from the village of Kashmir enters a damaged house by Pakistani artillery bombings, in the village of Salamabad in Uri, north of Srinagar, Indian controlled cashmere, Thursday May 8, 2025. (AP photo / Mukhtar Khan)
Drones drawn from Pakistan
India pulled several Halop Israeli manufacturing drones in Pakistan during the night and Thursday afternoon, according to the army spokesman, Lieutenant-General Ahmad Sharif.
Pakistani forces have shot 25, he said. One civilian was killed and another injured when debris of a slaughtered drone fell into the Sindh province.
A drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and injured four soldiers, and another fell into the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, near the capital, according to Sharif.
“The armed forces neutralize them when we speak,” said Sharif on Pakistani television managed by the state early Thursday afternoon.
The HAROP drone, produced by the IAI of Israel, is one of the many inventories of India, according to the report of the military balance of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
According to the IAI, the HAROP combines the capacities of a drone and a missile and can operate at long ranges.
In Lahore, local police official Mohammad Rizwan said that a drone was shot down near Walton airport, an aerodrome in a residential area about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the border with India, which also contains military facilities.
Local media reported that two additional drones had been killed in other cities in the province of Punjab, of which Lahore is the capital.
In the Punjab Chakwal district, a drone crashed on agricultural land. The authorities have obtained the wreckage and investigate the origin and the objective of the drone.
Fears of a growing conflict
With high tensions, India has evacuated thousands of people from villages near the highly militarized border of the two countries in cashmere. Tens of thousands of people slept in shelters overnight, officials and residents announced on Thursday.
About 2,000 villagers also fled their houses to cashmere administered by Pakistan.
Mohammad Iftikhar rose aboard a vehicle in Chakothi with his family on Thursday while heavy rains hit the region. “I helplessly leave my house for the safety of my children and my wife,” he said.
Thefts have been suspended in more than two dozen airports in the regions of northern and western India, according to the travel opinions of several airlines. Pakistan has suspended thefts in four of its airports – Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Sialkot – according to the Aviation Authority.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that 13 civilians had been killed and 59 injured the day before during the shooting through the de facto border. An Indian soldier was also killed by bombing on Wednesday, according to the Indian army.
Pakistani officials said six people had been killed near the highly militarized border in fire exchange during the last day.
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Ahmed reported Islamabad. The writers of the Associated Press Aijaz Hussein in Srinagar, India, Rajesh Roy in New Delhi and Ishfaq Hussain and Roshan Mughal in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report.
