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Pakistan and India got closer to the large-scale war after Islamabad said that he had launched short-range missiles above the border early Saturday while India targeted the air bases deeply in the territory of its neighbor.
Later on Saturday, India said that Pakistan moved the troops to the border. New Delhi said this decision would increase conflict by potentially adding field operations to cross -border air strikes. The Pakistani army refused to comment on the complaint.
Pakistan said that they have launched Operation Bunyān Māruss – by the name of a Koranic sentence which, according to the army, meant “iron wall” – in response to the missile and drone attacks from India since Wednesday.
Military officials said the attacks were aimed at a storage site for Indian supersonic brahmos missiles in the PUNJAB, Udhampur’s air field in the Indian Jammu and cashmere sub-region and a aerodrome in Pathankot, also in Punjab. Islamabad added that India had struck military bases overnight.
The last confrontation between nuclear weapons neighbors was launched by the mass shooting of 25 Indians and a Nepalese citizen in Pahalgam, a tourist hub at the cashmere administered by the Indians on April 22. India blamed the attack on activists supported by Pakistan. Pakistan has denied participation.
India responded on Wednesday by performing air strikes on what it said to be terrorist camps in the part administered by Pakistan in cashmere, which the two countries claim.
Analysts said on Saturday’s strikes represented a significant intensification of the conflict.
“This is the climbing on both sides and for two reasons,” said Suzant Singh, lecturer in South Asian studies at the University of Yale.
“One is the choice of high -level military targets like the air bases, and the fact that the two countries claim to have removed the air defense units on the other side, which is a signal that they will be accompanied by a larger set in the next strike.”
Before his strikes in India, Islamabad said that his rival had launched six ballistic missiles to three Pakistani air bases. These include the Nur Khan air base near the city of Garrison de Rawalpindi, which houses the general seat of the military. He indicated that only a few missiles escaped the air defenses and none struck “air assets”.
During a briefing on Saturday, India said that Pakistan had attempted “air intrusions” in more than 26 places, from Srinagar to cashmere in the north in Naliya, Gujarat, near the southern tip of the border.
India has also said that Pakistan had pulled a high-speed missile in an air base in Punjab at the start and targeted from health centers and schools in Jammu-et-Cachemire Air Centers. He said that he had replied with “precision attacks only on the military targets identified”, in particular technical infrastructure, command and control centers, radar sites and weapon storage areas.
An Indian district official in the border town of Réjouri, Jammu-et-Cachemire administered by the Indians, was killed in bombing of Pakistan, said the chief minister of the Omar Abdullah region.
Transfrontal exchanges represent their worst battles since the 1999 Kargil War. India called conflict as an essential blow against a regime which he accuses of supporting terrorism. Pakistan argues that he defends himself against an attack on a crime he has not committed.
Pakistan accuses India of killing 33 civilians, including seven children, since air attacks and drones began on Wednesday, and officials promised to “avenge” the lost lives.
Inter-service public relations, which speaks on behalf of the Pakistani army, said they launched Fattah missiles manufactured locally. A poster attached to a terrestrial launcher said that the missiles were “with love” of the seven children that Islamabad had been killed by India on Wednesday, according to images shared by the ISPR.
India has described its strikes on Pakistan as “measured, not climbed, proportioned and responsible”.
Diplomatic efforts to defuse the conflict intensified this week. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, called for the Pakistani army chief Asim is having calm and offering help to start talks between neighbors “to avoid future conflicts”, according to the US State Department.
Saudi Arabia sent Adel al-Jubeir, a main diplomat, in India and Pakistan this week. He said it was “part of the kingdom’s efforts to defuse and put an end to the current military confrontation”,
Additional reports by Ahmed Al Omran
