India fire missiles into Pak territory in wee hours of Wednesday
India fire missiles into Pak territory in wee hours of Wednesday
It was a tit-for-tat
India fired missiles into Pak territory in counter to Kashmir militant attack in wee hours of Wednesday.
According to Pakistan authorities, India fired missiles into their controlled territory in several locations killing a child and wounding two other people, India retorted it was striking infrastructure used by militants.
In a statement the Indian said three
civilians were also killed in shelling by Pakistani troops in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Strikes follow an attack on Kashmir: A deadly attack on tourists in the disputed region of Kashmir last month plunged relations amid India and Pakistan to new lows. India accuses Pakistan of backing the massacre, in which 26 men, mostly Indian Hindus, were killed, a charge Pakistani denies. Both countries subsequently expelled diplomats and citizens, ordered the border shut and closed their airspace for each other.
India’s missiles hit six locations:
As per Pakistan’s military spokesperson the attacks on Wednesday killed eight people and injured 38 others. India’s Defense Ministry said at least nine sites were targeted..It was a planned terrorist attacks against India.
Pakistan responds.
In a statement statement, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said “Pakistan has every right to give a robust response to this act of war imposed by India, and a strong response is indeed being given. The Indian army said that Pakistan fired artillery along what’s known as the de facto border in Bhimber Gali in India-controlled Kashmir.
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Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Islamabad has informed the U.N. Security Council about the Indian attacks and the threat it poses to international peace and security.
The ministry says in a statement that the Security Council was told that “Pakistan reserves the right to respond appropriately to this aggression at a time and place of its choosing.”
Indian security officials say that army, navy and air force personnel used precision strike weapon systems, including drones, to carry out the strikes.
The officials said that intelligence
provided coordinates for the strikes and that all operations were executed from Indian territory.
The officials said the strikes targeted the headquarters of militant groups Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Muridke.
5 Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed and two people injured in attack
A Pakistani official says one missile struck a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed and a woman and man were injured.
The official and others say Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes but didn’t provide any details.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Pakistan condemns what it calls Indian Air Force strikes on civilian areas.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned what it calls a “blatant and unprovoked act of aggression” on civilian areas by the Indian Air Force.
It says Indian aircraft lunched strikes from Indian airspace, targeting civilian areas in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in Punjab province.
The ministry says in a statement that the attack reportedly resulted in civilian casualties, including women and children, and posed a significant threat to commercial air traffic.
Local residents examine a building damaged from a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, in Wednesday, May 7,
Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif has strongly condemned what he calls a “cowardly act by India.”
He told Pakistan’s Geo news channel that India had deliberately targeted civilian populations and a mosque.
“This was a cowardly move by India,” Asif said. “We will also respond.”
The Indian army says in a statement that Pakistan fired artillery along what’s known as the de facto border, or the Line of Control, in Bhimber Gali in India-controlled Kashmir.
It said India’s armed forces were “responding appropriately in a calibrated manner.”
News Edit KV Raman
