Pakistan and India Trade accusations about drone attacks

India has accused Pakistan of attacking three of his military bases with drones and rockets, a claim that has been refused by Islamabad.

The Indian army said it was Pakistan’s attempts to attack his bases in Jammu and Udhampur, thwarted in the Indian-judged Kashmir and Pathhankot, in the Indian state Punjab.

Explosions were reported on Thursday evening in Jammu City in Kashmir in India, while the region went into a blackout.

The Minister of Defense of Pakistan told the BBC that they were not behind the attack.

“We deny it, we have not mounted anything so far,” Khawaja Asif said to the BBC and added: “We will not strike and then deny”.

Earlier on Thursday, India said it had hit Pakistan’s air defense and the attempts of Islamabad to achieve military goals in India on Wednesday evening in India had “neutralized”.

Pakistan called that action an “act of aggression”, after Indian rocket attacks on Wednesday on goals in Pakistan and Pakistani-assessed Kashmir.

The strikes of India on Wednesday led to a choir of calls to de-escalation of the international community with the UN and world leaders who call for calmness.

The attacks and incidents of shelling along the border have lit the fear of broader conflicts that burst out between the nuclear arming states.

It is seen as the worst confrontation between the two countries in more than two decades.

India said it was nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites on Wednesday as a retribution for a militant attack on tourists in India-judged Kashmir last month.

Pakistan strongly denied the Indian claims that it supported the militants who killed 26 civilians in the mountainous city of Pahalgam.

For years it was the bloodiest attack on citizens in the region, which increases tensions. Most victims were Indian tourists.

Indian-managed Kashmir has seen a decades of uprising against Indian rule that has demanded thousands of lives.

Kashmir has been a flash point between the countries since they became independent after British India was divided in 1947. Both claim Kashmir and have two wars fought over it.

After that there were calls for restraint from all over the world India launched “Operation Sindoor” early Wednesday.

But on Thursday both parties accused each other of further military action.

The military spokesperson for Pakistan said that drones sent by India were involved in several locations.

“Last night India showed a different act of aggression by sending drones to multiple locations,” said Lt Gen Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry. “These locations are Lahore, Gujranwala, Chakwal, Rawalpindi, Attock, Bahawalpur, Miano, Chor and near Karachi.”

He said a burger was killed in the province of Sindh and four troops injured in Lahore.

The American consulate in Lahore told his staff to protect In the building.

India said that the last action had been taken in response to Pakistan’s attempts to involve a number of military goals in the north of and West India at night ‘.

“It has been reliably learned that an air defense system in Lahore is neutralized,” said a statement from the Ministry of Defense. Pakistan denied the claim.

There was no independent confirmation of the versions of the events of the two countries.

Later in the day, India’s foreign secretary Vikram Miskri told a press conference in Delhi: “Our intention was not to escalate things, we only respond to the original escalation.”

In the meantime, the number of victims continue to rise. Pakistan says that 31 people were killed and 57 were injured by Indian air strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-assessed Kashmir, and since Wednesday morning it has been on the line of control.

The Indian army said that the number of people killed by Pakistani shooting in the disputed region of Kashmir had risen to 16, including three women and five children.

India initially did not mention any group whose believed it was behind the attack in Pahalgam, but on 7 May it accused the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group of performing in Pakistan.

The Indian police have claimed that two of the attackers were Pakistani nationals, a claim that was rejected by Islamabad. It says that it has nothing to do with the attacks of April 22.

In a late-night address on Wednesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif promised to avenge those killed in the strikes of India.

He repeated Pakistan’s claim that it had shot five Indian fighter jets and said that this was a “crushing reaction”. India has not commented on that claim.

After the reports of Thursday’s explosions in Jammu, local media mentioned Indian military sources on Thursday in reporting that explosions in the Jammu region were also reported in the cities of Akhnoor, Samba and Kathua.