7/5/2025–|Last update: 7/5/202501:43 AM (Mecca time)
The Indian army announced that its Pakistani counterpart bombed the artillery areas in the Indian part of Kashmir after Indian missile strikes on Tuesday evening, which New Delhi said that it had targeted “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan in response to an attack in the Indian part of Kashmir on April 22.
A statement by the Indian army on the “X” platform said that “Pakistan has once violated the ceasefire agreement by its artillery shelling of the Pimber Ghali and Bunsh Rajouri sectors” in the Indian part of Kashmir, adding that it was “a suitable and studied response.”
“His response will be firm and comprehensive,” the Pakistani army spokesman said on the Indian missile attack that targeted sites in Pakistan on Tuesday evening, confirming the killing of at least 3 people and the injury of 12 others.
A spokesman for the Pakistani army said that at least two mosques targeted the Indian attack, stressing that India “will now receive a comprehensive and firm response,” while Reuters quoted a Pakistani regional official to declare a state of emergency in the Punjab region.
Reuters reported the police as saying that a violent shelling between the Indian and Pakistani forces occurred in 3 sites across the border in Kashmir, and Pakistani television quoted security officials that the Pakistani Air Force had brought down two Indian fighters and others.
For its part, Reuters quoted Pakistani Defense minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif that India fired missiles from its air field, and that “India’s claim that it targeted a false terrorist camps.”
The minister said that all the goals set by India are civilian areas, not camps for militants.
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Earlier, Al -Jazeera correspondent reported that 3 Indian missiles targeted sites in the Kashmir and Punjab region, noting that one of the missiles targeted the old airport in Muzaffarbad in the part of Pakistani control of the Kashmir region.
Reuters quoted a Pakistani security source as saying that a child was killed and two other people were injured in the Indian attack on Phalebur, and the Pakistani authorities confirmed, “At least a child was killed and two other people were wounded in the Indian bombing of the Punjab region.”
Reuters also quoted the Indian army, “We respond in proportionally and in a deliberate way to violate the ceasefire,” adding that “Pakistan is violating the agreement again in the Bonche-Rajuri region.”
Pakistani condemnation
On the other hand, Pakistani Prime Minister Mohamed Shahbaz Sharif said that “the people and the army know how to face the enemy and we will never allow it to achieve its malicious goals,” adding that “the entire nation stands alongside our armed forces and the morale of our people in its highest levels.”
“We have the full right to respond strongly to the military aggression on the part of India,” Sharif said, stressing that “the enemy launched a cowardly attack on 5 sites in Pakistan and is being answered with full force.”
In turn, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it “strongly condemns the actions of India”, which “violated Pakistan using long -term weapons from within the Indian airspace.”
Reuters also quoted a UN spokesman that its Secretary -General Antonio Guterres called for the utmost military restraint between India and Pakistan, and that “he is very concerned about India’s military operations through the international monitoring and border line.”
