Missiles and drones: Pakistan and India refer responsibility for fighting

Pakistan and India again returned the responsibility of the deadly fights on Friday which have opposed them for three days at their border. The calls for de -escalation that follow one another in foreign capitals have not changed anything.

Since the Indian strikes carried out Wednesday on Pakistani soil in retaliation for the attack on April 22 in the Indian part of cashmere, missile strikes, artillery fire and drone attacks follow one another.

India accuses Pakistan of supporting the jihadist group which it suspects of having murdered 26 civilians in the tourist town of Pahalgam, which Islamabad firmly denies.

Indian missile shots were immediately followed by a Pakistani response, causing the two military powers in their most intense military confrontation for several decades.

On Friday, India reported Pakistani shots at night “all along the border” and “multiple attacks” of drones, repelled according to it.

Indian lieutenant-colonelle Vyomika Singh assured that Pakistan “tried drone incursions in 36 places with around 300 to 400 drones”, while the Pakistani army said it has shot down “77 drones”. Affirmations impossible to verify an independent source, in particular because many areas are inaccessible.

The Indian high-grades mentioned “losses and wounded” in both camps, without further details.

The International Research Center Crisis Group (ICG) warns against “the risks of an escalation” because of “bellicose rhetoric, domestic agitation and the close logic of the overbidding” of the two neighbors.

Again on Friday, the Pakistani army said that it was not intended to engage in a de -escalation, while Islamabad accused new Delhi of bringing the two neighbors “of a major conflict” closer.

Earlier, the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, said that he was “not with the intention” of his country to “cause a new escalation”. While promising a “very firm answer” in the event of a new attack.

If on both sides of the border, leaders and high-grades multiply the threats, the inhabitants, they bury their dead and say they are preparing for the worst.

Tens of millions of children are deprived of school. On the India side, the schools were closed throughout the Indian cashmere as well as in Penjab and Rajasthan. On the Pakistan side, the Schools of Cashmere and Pandjab Pakistani, as well as to Islamabad will not reopen before Monday.

Twenty-four airports in northwestern India were closed.

Thursday evening, the Indian part of cashmere, whose two countries claim the whole sovereignty, was shaken by many explosions.

New Delhi immediately attributed them to a series of pakistani drone and missile strikes targeting military facilities. “No losses. The threat was neutralized, “said the Indian Defense Ministry.

Earlier in the day, it was Lahore, the big Pakistani city bordering India, which had woken up at the sound of the explosions.

A new attack by Pakistani drones targeted the Indian Kashmir region (northwest) for the second consecutive hide and evening, a source from the Indian Ministry of Defense told AFP.

This attack targeted the cities of Jammu and Samba, in the Indian part of this contested region, as well as that of Pathankot, in the neighboring state of the Penjab, said this source, adding that the Indian anti -aircraft defense had retaliated.

The head of the cashmere executive, Omar Obdallah, reported “intermittent detonations” on his account in his account in Jammu where he is. “More electricity now in Jammu. We hear sirens in the city, “he also wrote.

AFP journalists also reported intense artillery fire around the Indian village of Poonch on Friday evening, along the border.