By equipping Ahmed, Associated Press
Islamabad, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistan said that India had fired missiles on three air bases inside the country on Saturday, but most of the missiles were intercepted and that reprisals in India were underway. This is the last climbing of a conflict triggered by a massacre last month that India blames Pakistan.
The Pakistani army said it used medium -range Fateh missiles to target an Indian missile storage installation and air bases in Pathankot and Udhampur.
The army spokesman, Lieutenant-General Ahmad Sharif, said in a television address that Pakistan Air Force assets were safe after Indian strikes, adding that some of the Indian missiles also hit the eastern punjab of India.
“This is a provocation of the higher order,” said Sharif.
Pakistan television managed by the State said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the National Command Authority, the organization responsible for supervising the country’s missile program and other strategic assets.
Tensions between nuclear weapons rivals have soaked since a popular tourist site in cashmere controlled by India left 26 dead civilians, mainly Hindu Indian tourists on April 22. New Delhi blamed the P Akistan for supporting the assault, an accusation rejects Islamabad.
The Indian missiles have targeted Nur Khan’s air base in the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, Murida air base in the city of Chakwal and Rafiqui air base in the Jhang district, in eastern Punjab, the spokesman.
Sharif said some of the Indian missiles have also been to Afghanistan.
“I want to give you the shocking news that India has drawn six ballistic missiles from his city of Adampur,” said Sharif. One of the ballistic missiles struck Adampur, the remaining five missiles struck the Indian area of the Punjab of Amritsar. »»
After the announcement of Pakistani reprisals, residents of cashmere under Indian control said they had heard noisy explosions in several places in the region, including the two major cities of Srinagar and Jammu, and the city of Garrison d’Udhampur.
“The explosions we hear today are different from those we have heard the last two nights in drone attacks,” said Shesh Paul Vaid, a former senior police officer and Jammu resident. “It looks like a war here.”
Vaid said explosions have been heard in areas that have military bases, adding that army sites were targeted.
There was no immediate commentary on the defense of India and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its armed forces.
Srinagar seemed calm early Saturday, but some residents of neighborhoods close to the city’s airport, which is also an air base, said they had been shaken by explosions and the booming sound of fighter planes.
“I was already awake but the explosions sang my children from their sleep. They started to cry,” said Mohammed Yasin, a Srinagar resident, adding that he said heard at least two explosions.
Despite the Indian attacks, life in the big cities of Pakistan remained normal on Saturday morning, although the country’s civil aviation authority said that all airports had been closed for all flight operations.
As soon as people learned that Pakistan had finally made a reprisal strike, people were seen raising slogans to support the armed forces of Pakistan.
“Thank goodness, we finally responded to the Indian assault,” said a young man, Muhammad Ashraf, 28, who had come to the Anarkali bazaar in the morning for breakfast.
In the city of Multan, Punjab, a young man by the name of Muhammad Rizwan said that the Pakistani armed forces had won the heart of the whole nation by taking strong measures against Indian aggression. “The whole Pakistani nation is united against Indian assault,” he said.
In Peshawar, Karachi and in all the big cities, people were seen sing slogans in support of the army and the country.
The Indian army said on Friday evening that drones had been seen in 26 places in many regions of the Indian states bordering Pakistan and the cashmere controlled by India, including Srinagar. He said drones were followed and committed.
“The situation is under close and constant surveillance, and rapid measures are taken wherever necessary,” added the press release.
On Wednesday, India carried out air strikes on several sites in the Pakistani territory which it described as linked to activists, killing 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials. Pakistan said he had killed five Indian hunting planes.
India said on Thursday that it had thwarted Pakistani drones and missile attacks on military targets in more than a dozen cities and cities, including the city of Jammu in the cashmere controlled by India. Pakistan denied complaints. India said that it had struck air defense systems and Pakistan radars near the city of Lahore. Incidents could not be confirmed independently.
The group of seven nations, or G7, urged the “maximum restraint” of India and Pakistan in the midst of flared hostilities.
“A new military escalation is a serious threat to regional stability. We are deeply concerned about civilian security on both sides,” a statement from Canada on behalf of the G7 foreign ministers on Friday. “We call for immediate de -escalation and encourage the two countries to initiate a direct dialogue towards a peaceful result.”
The journalist AP Hussain reported to Srinagar, India.
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