Pakistan conducts retaliatory strikes after India fires missiles on its air bases

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Pakistan said that India triggered missiles in three air bases within the country on Saturday, but most missiles were intercepted and that retaliation attacks in India were underway. That’s all The last climb In a conflict activated by A massacre last month What India blames Pakistan.

The Pakistani army said that he used medium -sized Fateh missiles to aim at a storage installation of Indian missiles and air bases in Pathkankot and Udhampur.

Army spokesman, Lieutenant Gen. Ahmad Sharif, he said in a televised speech that the assets of the Pakistan Air Force were safe after the Indian strikes, adding that some of the Indian missiles also reached the Eastern Punjab of India.

“This is a provocation of the highest order,” said Sharif.

Pakistan state television said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the National Command Authority, the body responsible for supervising the country’s missile program and other strategic assets.

The Indian missiles attacked the Nur Khan Air Base in the city of Garrison in Rawalpindi, the Air Base Mueda in the city of Chakwal and the Rafiqui Air Base in the Jhang district of the Eastern Province of Punjab, according to the spokesman. There were no immediate comments from India.

Sharif said that some of the Indian missiles also went to Afghanistan.

“I want to give you the amazing news that India shot six ballistic missiles from her city of Adampur,” Sharif said. One of the ballistic missiles hit Adampur, the five traninal missiles hit the Indian Punjab area of ​​Amritsar. “

The Indian army said in a statement on Friday night that the drones were seen in 26 locations in many areas of the Border Pakistan and Kashmira Indian states controlled by India, including the main city of Srinagar of the region. He said the drones were tracked and committed.

“The situation is under close and constant surveillance, and the rapid action is to be tasks whenever necessary,” said the statement.

In a statement, the State Department said that the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, had spoken with the head of the Pakistan army also on Friday and “continued urging both parties to find ways to break down and offered us assistance to avoid constructive conversations”

Tensions among rivals with nuclear weapons have shot themselves since An attack in a popular tourist site In India, Kashmir, controlled by India, left 26 dead civilians, mostly Indian Hindu tourists, April 22. New Delhi blamed Pakistan for supporting the assault, an accusation of Islamabad rejects.

On Wednesday, India made air attacks In several places in the Pakistani territory, he described as a militant related to the militant, killing 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials. Pakistan said he demolished five Indian combat planes.

On Thursday, India said it frustrated the attacks of unmanned airplanes and Pakistani missiles in military objectives in more than one city and villages, including the city of Jammu in Kashmir controlled by India. Pakistan denied that he carry out drones attacks. India said, meanwhile, that he hit the Pakistan air defense and radar systems near the city of Lahore. Incidents could not be confirmed independently.

India and Pakistan have already fought three wars for the disputed region of the Kashmir Himalayas. Both nations claim every reason as their own territory, but each one controls only part of it. Another northeast of the region is administered by China, which has a long leg of friction between Delhi and Beijing.

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