India leads strikes in Pakistan, which retaliated with cashmere artillery fire

India led the strikes in Pakistan on Tuesday to Wednesday to Pakistan, which retaliated with artillery fire in cashmere, bringing a new level crossing in the climbing between the two nuclear powers.

In the darkness of the night, huge explosions were audible near Srinagar, the big city in cashmere administered by India, not far from the Indian army headquarters for the area, found journalists from theAFP.

Earlier, it was in at least five areas of Pakistan – in cashmere and in the border of India – that heavy explosions have sounded.

Pakistani Minister of Defense Khawaja Asif told theAFP That three civilians, including a child, had been killed.

India on its side said he had struck terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan […] Hence the terrorist attacks against India were organized and directed.

This new escalation between the two neighbors, rivals since their partition in pain in 1947, was triggered by an attack which caused the shock in India.

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On April 22, armed men killed 26 men in the part of the cashmere administered by India. Immediately after this never claimed attack, New Delhi accused Islamabad. Pakistan denies.

But the Indian police provide at least two Pakistani nationals among the attackers and their accomplices and ensures that they are linked to the Let, the jihadist movement Lashkar-E-Taiba based in Pakistan, already suspected of the attacks which had left 166 dead in Mumbai in 2008.

One of the sites targeted during the night by the Indian army is the Subhan mosque in Bahawalpur, in the Pakistani pendjab, linked according to Indian intelligence to groups close to the Let, notably the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Jem).

Shortly after these strikes, cashmere has ignited. Journalists from theAFP In the disputed area report explosions that are now increasingly close.

The response has started and, if God wants it, it will increasethreatened in an interview withAFP The Asif Minister, while the Pakistani national security committee, a body only summoned for extreme situations, will meet in the morning.

India says it has shown “restraint”

The world cannot afford a military confrontation Between India and Pakistan, tried to plead theHimwhile the two neighbors continue to assert their right to defend oneself For two weeks.

The Indian army said that Pakistan has made artillery fire on its territory, accusing it ofOnce again to violate the ceasefire agreement by performing artillery fire in the sectors of Bhimber Gali and Poonch-Rajauriat the Indian cashmere. She adds Riposte appropriately and calibrated.

In the midst of these announcements, US President Donald Trump said he hoped that clashes between India and Pakistan will stop very quickly.

The Indian army, it claims that its action is targeted, measured and aims to avoid climbing.

No Pakistani military installation has been targetedhammers New Delhi, considering showing a considerable restraint.

We thus hold our commitment to ensure that those responsible for this attack [du 22 avril] make accountsadds the Hindu ultra -nationalist government of Narendra Modi.

Shortly before these strikes, the US State Department had said that it had called India and Pakistan to work for a responsible resolution of their dispute.

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New Delhi had just threatened cut the water Who irrigates Pakistan, in retaliation for the murderous attack on April 22.

The next day, India had suspended its participation in a water sharing treaty signed in 1960 with its neighbor.

Many experts and the populations fear a military confrontation between the two nuclear powers, which have already delivered several wars.

For the past ten nights, Indian soldiers and Pakistani have been exchanging light weapons along the border between their countries. Without having victims for the moment, according to New Delhi.

In recent days, Pakistan has for its part proceeded to two soil-to-ground missile tests. The one led on Saturday concerned a machine with a range of 450 km, the distance between the Pakistani border from the Indian capital New Delhi.

India must precisely carry out civil defense exercises on Wednesday, according to its ministry of information, to prepare the population for protect yourself in the event of an attack.

In this climate, the secretary general of theHim Antonio Guterres urged the two countries on Monday to go away from the precipice.