- Pakistan targets the Indian bases in the midst of increasing conflicts.
- Pakistan says to respond to missile attacks by Indian planes.
- The United States calls the two countries to a diplomatic de-escalation.
Pakistan said he called a meeting of the higher organization on Saturday which oversees its nuclear arsenal after launching a military operation against India early in the morning, targeting several bases, including a missile storage site in northern India.
The Indian army said after the attacks that Pakistan continued its “blatant climbing” with drone strikes and using other ammunition along the western border of India, and that its “enemy conceptions” would be thwarted.
Diplomatic calls for de-escalation, including by the United States, intensified while nuclear neighbors intensified their worst fights in three decades.
Pakistan said that before its offensive, India had fired missiles on three air bases, including close to the capital, Islamabad, but Pakistani air defenses intercepted most of them.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that he had called a National Command Authority (NCA) meeting, a higher body of civil and military officials who oversees decisions on its nuclear arsenal.
However, the Minister of Defense Asif said PK Press Club News that the NCA meeting is not called.
Analysts and diplomats have been feared for a long time that conflicts between the arc rivals could degenerate in the use of nuclear weapons, in one of the most dangerous and populated nuclear point regions in the world.
The Minister of Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, said that climbing was a test for the international community. “We would hate to see that the threshold (nuclear) is violated.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Pakistani army chief asim Munnir on Friday morning, according to the United States Department of State.
“He continued to urge the two parties to find ways to defuse and offered us assistance to start constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts,” said State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
Establish in a long -standing dispute in cashmere, the two countries have embarked on daily clashes since Wednesday, when India has launched strikes inside Pakistan on what it called “terrorist infrastructure”. Pakistan has sworn to retaliate.
The meeting of the National Command Authority reported an alarming escalation, analysts said.
“It is a mild nuclear signal but also in accordance with the nuclear doctrine of Pakistan of first use and reflecting in a realistic way where we are on the climbing scale – which is high enough, after several duels between the two sides, and also missing from the previous one,” said Asfandyar Mir, senior scholarship holder for South Asia at the Stimson Center.
An Indian army declaration on X said that several armed drones had been identified in the holy city of Amritsar in the state of Punjab in India and were destroyed by its defense units.
The Pakistan Minister of Planning said in an interview that he did not target civilians and would only target locations that had been used for action against Pakistan.
The Ministries of Indian Defense and Foreign Affairs would jointly inform the media at 10:30 am (0500GMT), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a media opinion.
The Minister of Information of Pakistan declared in an article on the social media site X that the military operation had been appointed “Operation Bunyanun Marsoos”. The term is taken from the Koran and means a firm and united structure.
“Brahmos’ storage site has been withdrawn from the Beas General Zone,” Pakistan army said in a message to journalists, adding that Pathankot aerodrome in the western Punjab state of India and the Udhampur Air Force station in Indian Cashmire have also been affected.
Sounds of explosions have been reported in Jammu-et-Cachemire of illegally Indian occupation (iiojk), where the sirens have struck, a Reuters said the witness.
“India, through its planes, has launched Air-Surface missiles … Nur Khan Base, Mureed Base and Shorkot Base have been made,” said Pakistan military spokesperson, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, in a TV declaration late at night.
The chief minister of the IIOJK Omar Abdullah said in a statement that a local administration manager had been killed by bombings in Réjouri, near the control line which divides the contested region.
One of the three air bases which, according to Pakistan, were targeted by India is in the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, just outside the capital, Islamabad. The other two are in the Pakistani oriental province of Punjab, which borders India.
The Pakistani military spokesman said that only a few missiles had passed past aerial defenses, and that they had not succeeded in “air active ingredients”, according to initial damage assessments.
India said its strikes on Wednesday, which started the last clashes between countries, were in retaliation for a deadly attack on Hindu Indian tourists illegally occupied Jammu and cashmere last month.
Pakistan denied the accusations of India that it was involved in the tourist attack. Since Wednesday, the two countries have exchanged cross -border shots and bombings and sent drones and missiles in the other airspace.
On Friday, a large part of the fighting was in IIOJK and the neighboring States of Pakistan. India said that it had shot Pakistani drones.
Friday, the group of seven countries urged maximum compression and called on the two countries to engage in a direct dialogue. The United Kingdom High Commissioner in Pakistan, Jane Marriott, said in a press release on the X social media platform that they were closely monitoring developments.
Sounds of explosions have also been heard in the Pakistani city eastern Lahore and in the northwest city of Peshawar, while the fights threatened to spread.
At least 48 people have been killed since Wednesday, according to injury estimates on both sides of the border which have not been verified independently.
