India fired drones from attacking Pakistan on Thursday, injuring four soldiers, said the Pakistani army. India, on the other hand, accused its neighbor of having tried his own attack, while the tensions have climbed between the nuclear rivals.
India has admitted to targeting the air defense system in Pakistan and Islamabad said it had shot down several of the drones. India said it “neutralized” Pakistan’s attempts to touch military targets. It was not possible to check all the statements.
The round trips one day came after the Indian missiles struck several places in Pakistan, killing 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials. New Delhi said she was retalating after armed men killed 26 people, mainly Hindu tourists, controlled cashmere in India last month. India has accused Pakistan of being behind the assault. Islamabad denies it.
The two parties also exchanged heavy shots on their border in the disputed cashmere, and Pakistan claimed to have killed dozens of Indian soldiers. There was no confirmation from India.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif promised to avenge deaths in Indian missile strikes, which raises fears that the two countries are going to another total conflict. The leaders of the two nations face public pressure to show force and take revenge, and animated rhetoric and competing affirmations could be a response to this pressure.
The relationship between countries has been shaped by conflicts and mutual suspicions, especially in their dispute on cashmere. They fought two of their three wars in the Himalayan region, which is divided between them and claimed by the two in its entirety.
With high tensions, India has evacuated thousands of people from villages near the very militarized border in the region. Tens of thousands of people slept in shelters overnight, officials and residents announced on Thursday.
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About 2,000 villagers also fled their houses to cashmere administered by Pakistan.
Mohammad Iftikhar on Thursday went on Thursday on a vehicle with his family while heavy rains hit the region. “I helplessly leave my house for the safety of my children and my wife,” he said.
India draws drones in Pakistan
India pulled several Harop Israeli manufacturing drones in Pakistan during the night and Thursday afternoon, according to the spokesman for the Pakistani army, Lieutenant-General Ahmad Sharif.
Pakistani forces have shot 25, he said. One civilian was killed and another injured when debris of a slaughtered drone fell into the Sindh province.
A drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and injured four soldiers, and another fell into the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, near the capital, according to Sharif.
“The armed forces neutralize them when we speak,” said Sharif on Pakistani television managed by the state early Thursday afternoon.
In Lahore, local police official Mohammad Rizwan said that a drone was shot down near Walton airport, an aerodrome in a residential area about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the border with India, which also contains military facilities.
The Indian Defense Ministry said its armed forces “targeted radars and air defense systems” in several places in Pakistan, including Lahore.
India, on the other hand, accused Pakistan of having attempted “to hire a certain number of military targets” with missiles and drones along the control line which divides cashmere and elsewhere along their border.
“The debris of these attacks are now recovered from it on a number of locations,” he said.
Pakistani Minister of Information, Attaullah Tarar, told Parliament that so far Pakistan had not responded to the missile attacks in India, but there will be an appropriate response.
The HAROP drone, produced by the IAI of Israel, is one of the many inventories of India, according to the report of the military balance of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
According to the IAI, the HAROP combines the capacities of a drone and a missile and can operate at long ranges.
The two parties exchanged heavy shots during the last day.
Tarar, the Pakistani minister of information, said that the country’s armed forces had killed 40 to 50 Indian soldiers in the exchanges along the control line.
India has not commented on this assertion. Earlier, the army said that an Indian soldier was bombed on Wednesday.
Tarar denied the Indian accusations that Pakistan had fired missiles to the Indian city of Amritsar, saying that in fact, an Indian drone fell into the city. Neither claims could be confirmed.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that 16 civilians were killed on Wednesday during the trade in the de facto border.
Pakistani officials said six people had been killed near the highly militarized border in fire exchange during the last day.
Thefts have been suspended in more than two dozen airports in the regions of northern and western India, according to the travel opinions of several airlines. Pakistan has suspended thefts in four of its airports – Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Sialkot – according to the Aviation Authority.
–Ahmed reported in Islamabad; Saaliq reported to New Delhi. The writers of the Associated Press Aijaz Hussein in Srinagar, India, Rajesh Roy in New Delhi and Ishfaq Hussain and Roshan Mughal in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report.
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