London – India claimed on Thursday morning to intercept “drones and rockets”, which Pakistan released in several military goals throughout North and West Indies, and said that the attack overnight was an offer to “escalate” the conflict between the two countries.
India also said that these were aimed at Pakistani locations, including a Pakistani air defense system in Lahore that destroyed it.
“This morning, the Indian armed forces aimed at air defense radars and systems in a series of locations in Pakistan,” said the Indian Ministry of Defense in a statement. “The Indian reaction was with the same intensity as Pakistan in the same area.”
A large hole is seen on a roof of a house that was damaged in the Indian drone attack, as the residents who gathered behind a closed location, where the Pakistan air defense system was shot down on Thursday, May 8, 2025, a suspected Indian drone in Karachi, Pakistan.
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India started the air strikes on Pakistan on Tuesday and Wednesday, about two weeks after a fatal terrorist attack in the controversial Kashmir region. India accused Pakistan for this militant attack, the incident in Pahangam, in which 26 people were killed in Kashmir in India. Pakistan denied the participation.
On May 8, 2025, an Indian paramilitary staff will be near closed shops along a partially abandoned road in the LAL Chowk in Srinagar.
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At least 16 people were killed in India, the Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called a meeting of his secretaries to discuss the “national readiness” on Thursday, a high -ranking discussion of defense that came as his Pakistani counterpart that Pakistan had “again proven his superiority to his enemy”.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised his country’s military actions on Thursday in the past few days.
“I greet the heads of all three armed forces and every brave soldier,” said Sharif according to his office. “The 240 million people in Pakistan are proud of their forces.”
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