The India-Pakistan conflict increases sharply with attacks against military bases

The fights between India and Pakistan were strongly intensified on Saturday, the two parts targeting the air bases and the military sites, and each blaming the other for the strike first.

Pakistan said that India had targeted at least three of its air bases with air-surface missiles in the first hours of Saturday, including Nur Khan, a key air force installation near the capital, Islamabad. Witnesses from the city of Rawalpindi, where Nur Khan is, said he had heard at least three noisy explosions, with a “big fireball” visible for miles.

In a few hours, Pakistan said it had retaliated using surface surface missiles with short -range of several places in India, including the air bases in Udhampur and Pathankot and a missile storage installation. “One eye for an eye,” the Pakistani army said in a statement.

India, however, said that it had reached several Pakistani military targets, including two radar sites, in response to a wave of Pakistani attacks on 26 sites using drones, long -range weapons and fighter planes. There have been “limited damage” to equipment and staff in four Air Force bases, an Indian military spokesperson said on a press conference on Saturday.

“These are Pakistani actions that have constituted provocation and climbing. In response, India defended and reacted in a responsible and measured manner,” said Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vikram Misri.

Between the claims and the allegations of counters, it was increasingly clear that the night involved part of the heaviest military engagement on both sides since the start of the armed confrontation.