Bangkok (AP) – Missiles and India bomb on targets in Pakistan and cashmere controlled by Pakistan have point tensions Between the two neighbors with nuclear arms, the chief of Pakistan calling for attacks war act.
Certainly asks what was struck and where India or Pakistan was differing considerably, releasing many specific details. Making the current conflict even more confusing, the Internet was “flooded with disinformation, false claims and photos and videos and videos manipulated,” the Sufan Center thinking group in a research note said on Friday.
“This information war is aggravated by the commitment of the two parties to save their faces,” he said.
However, some information may be gleaned from official and twinned statements with what is known to better understand the confrontation:
Pakistan says it has shot down 5 Indian planes involved in the attack
A few hours after the attack on India early Wednesday, in retaliation Massacre of cashmere tourists under Indian control, Pakistan’s military spokesperson, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Sharif, said that the Pakistani Air Force had shot down five Indian attack planes: three French manufacturing gusts, a Russian manufacturing SU30MKI and a MIG-29 Russian manufacturing.
He said that the Air Force of Pakistan has undergone any victim and that all of his planes have returned safely to base himself.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif repeated the complaint, saying that the Pakistani Air Force had had the opportunity to shoot 10 Indian planes, but exercised a restraint and only made the five who had pulled on Pakistani targets.
He told Parliament that, overall, 80 Indian planes had been involved in the attack.
India, in the meantime, has not recognized any loss, although the debris of three planes fell into at least three areas.
Has this happened this way?
India has the three types of jets among its fighter planes more capable of 700 fights, according to the report of the military balance of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
The three planes are fighters with the capacity to transport bombs or missiles for ground attacks.
Pakistan and India both declared that their planes had not left their domestic airspace, suggesting that if the account of Pakistan was correct, rather than a fight of dogs in the cashmere sky, the Pakistani pilots pulled several air-to-air missiles over a long distance to eliminate Indian plans.
Assuming that India retaliated, even if Pakistan said that none of its planes had been hit, the air skirmish would have been the show. But there was no report for eyewitnesses or video to emerge on social networks.
What is known with certainty is that Indian planes were in the air and attacked at least nine targets, and that debris of three were found.
It is also plausible that Pakistan has used surface missiles to ventilate Indian planes – that the war in Ukraine has shown very effective and would not have mean that you have risked none of its own planes.
Pakistan has a wide range of these missiles, mainly Chinese manufacturing.
Chinese technology test?
The Air Force of Pakistan includes the F-16s of American manufacturing, the French Mirage and the new J-10C of Chinese construction, as well as the Chinese JF-17, which was developed jointly with Pakistan.
In addition to the American air-to-air missiles, Pakistan also has several Chinese products in its arsenal, including PL-12 and PL-15, which can both be used to draw targets beyond the visual beach.
Pakistan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ishaq Dar told the legislators that it was the J-10C that had shot down the Indian plane, raising the probability that Missiles built in Chinese are also employed.
“It is interesting to note that Pakistan says that he uses Chinese jets that he imported from China to shoot Indian planes,” said Lisa Curtis, director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington reflection group.
In 2019, during the previous military confrontation of the rivals, “it was an F-16 Pakistani supplied by the United States which was used to shoot down an Indian plane,” said Curtis at a conference call. “It is interesting to see that Pakistan makes up more on its Chinese equipment than six years ago.”
The news convinced traders with actions by Avic Chengdu, which builds both the J-10C and the J-17, to display important gains on Wednesday and Thursday on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Meanwhile, Dassault Aviation’s stock, the manufacturer of the Rafale jet, who is one of those Pakistanis claims to have slaughtered, fell sharply on the Paris Stock Exchange on Wednesday, but recovered from closing on Thursday.
What else knows?
India has not talked about the assets involved in the attacks. The Indian Defense Ministry said that strikes aimed at least nine sites “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned”.
Pakistan, in the meantime, said 31 civilians had been killed, including women and children, to cashmere administered by Pakistan and in the country’s Punjab province, and that the struck buildings included two mosques.
India showed a video of eight strikes during a briefing on Wednesday. Four to cashmere controlled by Pakistan and four in Pakistan.
The two parties talked about missile strikes, but it was clear from the video that the bombs were also abandoned on certain targets, perhaps from drones. In addition to claiming the five Indian planes slaughtered, Pakistan also said that it had decreased an unspecified number of drones on Wednesday.
Indian officials said that strikes were precision attacks, and from the videos presented, it seemed that specific areas of facilities were targeted with missiles or individual bombs, rather than generalized areas.
What happened next?
India sent several attacks to Pakistan on Thursday, Pakistan claiming to have shot down 29.
Drones have been identified as an Israeli manufacturing haop, one of the many in the inventory of India.
A drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and injured four soldiers, and another hit the city of Rawalpindi, which is right next to the Islamabad capital., According to the Pakistani army.
India did not deny having sent drones, but the Ministry of Defense said that its armed forces “targeted radars and air defense systems” in several places in Pakistan, including Lahore. He did not comment on the claims of 29 slaughtered.
India did not comment on the Pakistani claims which killed 50 to 60 soldiers in exchanges along the control line, although it declared that one of its soldiers had been killed by bombing on Wednesday.
Pakistani Minister of Information Attaullah Tarar, in the meantime, denied the Indian accusations that Pakistan had pulled missiles to the Indian city of Amritsar, saying that in fact, an Indian drone had fallen into the city.
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The editors of the Associated Press Munnir Ahmed in Islamabad and Sheikh Saaliq in New Delhi contributed to this report.
