Pakistani police officers remove vehicles and people from the main admission of only Khan Airbase after an Indian rocket strike in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan said that India fired rockets in the country in the country on Saturday, but most rockets were intercepted and that retaliation on India were underway. It is the latest escalation in a conflict that was triggered by a massacre last month that India is responsible for Pakistan.
The Pakistani military said it used medium-distance fate missiles to target an Indian rocket warehouse and airbases in Patankot and Udhampur. There was no way to review all actions that were attributed to Pakistan or India.
The spokesman for the army, a lieutenant general Ahmad Sharif, said that the Pakistan’s Air Force assets were safe after the Indian strikes, and added that some of the Indian rockets also hit India’s eastern Punjab.
“This is a provocation of the highest order,” said Sharif. There was no immediate comment from India.
The state -managed Pakistani television reported that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has a meeting of the National Command Agency, which has convened commands and other strategic assets responsible for monitoring the missile program of the country and other strategic assets.
The tensions between the nuclear -armed rivals have been left dead on April 22nd 26 civil population groups since an attack on a popular tourist location in India in India.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to the head of the Pakistani army on Friday.
Tammy Bruce, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Rubio continued to ask the two parties to “find paths to deescaling and offer us support in the starting of constructive conversations” in order to avoid future conflicts.
The call to the Indian rocket attacks on Saturday, which was only based on Khan Air Base in the Garrison City of Rawalpindi near the Capital Islamabad, in which Murid Air Base in Chakwal City and Rafiqui Air Base in the district of Jhang in the Jhang in Ostpunjab Province.
In Rawalpindi, a densely populated city, there was no access to the air to the air and no direct reports about the residents who see or saw the strike or its consequences.
After the announcement of the Pakistani retaliation measures, the residents of Kaschmir said that they heard loud explosions in several places in the region, including the two large cities of Srinagar and Jammu as well as the garrison city of Udhampur.
“Explosions we hear today differ from those that we have heard in the last two nights during drone attacks,” said Shesh Paul Vaid, the former police officer in the region and the residents of Jammu. “It looks like a war here.”
Vaid said explosions from areas with military bases were heard and added that the army resorts were attacked.
Srinagar appeared calmly in the early Saturday, but some inhabitants in districts near the city’s airport, which is also an air base, said they were rattled by the explosions and the booming sound of fighter planes.
“I was awake, but the explosions torn my children out of sleep. They started crying,” said Mohammed Yasin in Srinagar and added that he heard at least two explosions.
Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst at the international crisis group for India, said that the two countries were war in war, even if they had not yet described it as one.
“It is a ruthless race for military one-upmanship without obvious strategic end goals from both sides,” said Donthi. “With increasing civilian victims on both sides, it will be a challenge to find an exit or an off ramp.”
The Indian army said that it destroyed several armed Pakistani drones that survived on a military canton in the state of Amritsar in the state of Amritsar in the north of the state of Amritsar early Saturday.
“Pakistan’s obvious attempt to violate the sovereignty of India and endanger civilians is unacceptable.” The explanation says.
In Pakistan, the civil aviation authority closed the country’s airports for all flight operations, and people in large cities sang slogans who supported the armed forces.
“Thank God we finally answered Indian aggression,” said Muhammad Ashraf, who had gone on his way for breakfast in the eastern town of Lahore.
The Indian army said late Friday that drones in many areas in many areas in Indian countries, which were spotted at Pakistani and Indian -controlled cashmere borders, including Srinagar. It is said that the drones are engaged and engaged.
“The situation is under closer and constant clock, and wherever necessary, an immediate measure is taken,” added the explanation.
India and Pakistan acted strikes and heavy cross -border fire for days, which led to civilian victims on both sides.
The group of seven nations or G7 called for “maximum reluctance” from India and Pakistan. It warned on Friday that another military escalation was a serious threat to regional stability.