Pakistan threatened with new reprisals after accused India of targeting three of its military bases with missiles drawn from fighter planes, in a major climbing of the conflict of brewing between the two neighbors with nuclear arms.
“India, with its bare assault, attacked with missiles. Nur Khan Base, Murid Base and Shorkot Base have been targeted,” said Pakistan military spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, in a live program broadcast by state television early on Saturday.
Chaudhry said India had pulled six ballistic missiles from the border in Punjab. He said most of them were intercepted by the Pakistani air defenses. “Now you are waiting for our answer,” he warned India.
The Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi, where the army has its registered office, is about 10 km from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. In the aftermath of the strikes, Pakistan closed its airspace.
The video shared on social networks has shown flames and smoke that swells in the night sky when a voice can be heard by saying: “There was an attack on the base of Nur Khan while fighter planes passed.”
India’s strike attempts on Rawalpindi and other key military bases mark the most steep climbing to date in its confrontation with Pakistan, which has made the two countries closest to the war for decades.
On Wednesday, Indian missiles struck nine sites in Pakistan, killing 31 people. These strikes in turn were India’s response to a cashmere attack administered by the Indians at the end of last month, in which militants killed 25 Hindu tourists and a guide, who, according to them, had the involvement of Pakistan.
The alleged strikes of India on Pakistan occurred a few hours after the Indian said that Pakistan had launched another wave of drone attacks on 26 locations on the state of Punjab and the cashmere administered by the Indians on Friday evening. Explosions have been heard near Srinagar airport, the main city of cashmere administered in India.
The Indian army said that it had largely intercepted drones, but the police said three people in the Ferozepur district in Punjab, who borders Pakistan, had been injured by drone attacks, one in critical condition.
Earlier in the day, India accused Pakistan of launching an attack using up to 400 drones to target cities, military bases and places of worship through the north of the country on Thursday.
India said that it had intercepted hundreds of Pakistani drones, which he said met the border of cashmere administered by the Indians, as well as Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. He indicated that a first wave of drones came on Thursday evening and that another wave struck near Dawn on Friday.
India said it launched four drone strikes in Pakistan, directly targeting military defense infrastructure.
On Friday, at a press conference on Friday, the Indian army allegedly alleged that drone attacks in Pakistan had targeted a Gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship on Thursday, injuring a civilian and that drones had also targeted Christian churches.
“The targeting of temples, Gurdwaras, Couvents is a new hollow of Pakistan,” said Indian Foreign Minister Vikram Misri.
Pakistan Minister of Information, Attaullah Tarar, denied drone attacks and said that Pakistan had undertaken any “offensive action” within the Indian cashmere or beyond the border of Pakistan.
However, a Pakistan security official said that Thursday evening drone strikes were just to “heat things” before Pakistan launched a full -fledged reprisal attack. “When we retaliated, everyone will know,” they said.
Pakistan said he considered the Indian attack as an “act of war” and promised to fight back.
“We will not disagree – with the damage that India has caused our side, they should take a hit,” said Pakistan military spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, in a media briefing. “So far, we protect ourselves, but they will get an answer in our own timing.”
The Pakistani army gave new details on Wednesday’s strike in which he said that Pakistan had deployed more than 100 aircraft to keep the strikes from the Indian airplane attacks away. He said the two parties had engaged in an hour -hour dog fight.
Pakistan said it used Chinese manufacturing weapons and aerial ground defenses to help reduce five Indian hunting planes. India has not yet responded to allegations that Pakistan has shot down, but debris of at least three fighter planes, including that of at least one French elite burst, were seen in cashmere and punjab administered by the Indians.
