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India and Pakistan are accused of drone attacks after a deadly day

India and Pakistan are accused of drone attacks after a deadly day
India and Pakistan are accused of drone attacks after a deadly day
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On , the armies of the two nuclear powers exchanged intense artillery after Indian strikes in Pakistan, according to Delhi, the group he accuses of having committed the April 22 in his part of the . These bombings left at least 48 dead in both camps, almost all civilians.

Thursday, after a quieter night in cashmere, Lahore, the big Pakistani city border of India, woke up to the sound of explosions that resumed intermittently. India said it “neutralized” the air defense deployed there.

New Delhi claims to have acted in response to a night attack of “Pakistani missiles and drones” which aimed at “military targets” on its soil.

The Pakistani army said it had “hitherto shot 25 Israeli manufacturing drones” by India to at least nine cities, some sheltering military or intelligence headquarters, such as Rawalpindi, the Islamabad Jumelle city.

“A civilian was killed,” said the spokesman for the Pakistani army, while “four soldiers were injured near Lahore”, where residents published on social networks images of drones of drones, around two meters away.

“The Indian armed forces have targeted radars and air defense systems in several places in Pakistan,” said the Indian Defense Ministry, adding that Lahore’s installations had been “neutralized”.

The Pakistani army has denounced a “new act of aggression” of India carried out with “HAROP” Israeli manufacturing attack drones, that is, kamikazes.

In Rawalpindi, near a perimeter closed by the security forces, Wajid Khan, a civil defense employee, told AFP wanting to “inform the public that drones are still flying”.

“You shouldn’t give in to panic and stay at home,” he added.

The Pakistani civil aviation has announced to close Karachi , the economic capital, for a good part of the , and briefly interrupted traffic in three other airports, including those of Islamabad and Lahore.

At the same time, the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar assured his counterpart Abbas Araghchi, who came as a mediator, that he was “not in () intention (from India) to cause a new escalation”.

However, he added, any attack on Pakistan will arouse “a very firm answer”.

In the days which followed the attack of April 22 – of which New Delhi holds Islamabad responsible despite his denials – the soldiers posted on both sides of the de facto border in cashmere began to exchange each night of weapons.

But in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the situation has suddenly deteriorated: after the Indian strikes, the Pakistani soldiers artillery and bombed without respite from the Indian part of the predominantly Muslim region that the two countries compete.

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These fire exchanges, the Indian strikes and the face-to-face in the air of the air armies of the two countries which continued during the day made a new level cross on Wednesday on the rivalry between the two states, born in 1947 of a painful partition.

For experts, such intensity had not been reached for two decades.

As Prime Minister Narendra Moda had promised it, his army retaliated by destroying nine “terrorist camps” of this carefully identified movement to “avoid the population or civil sectors”, according to the Minister of Defense, Rajnath Singh.

But the Indian missiles that rained in six cities in cashmere and Pakistani pendjab and the exchanges of fire along the disputed border left 31 dead and 57 injured on the Pakistani side, according to the latest army report.

The two neighbors had been on the war foot since the attack which killed 26 people in Pahalgam, a tourist town of the Indian cashmere, and was not claimed.

India has attributed it to a jihadist group based in Pakistan, Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let), and accused its neighbor.

In the capital of the Pakistani cashmere Muzaffarabad, a mosque of which was targeted by the Indian strikes, several houses underwent damage, forcing their inhabitants to flee.

Since then, tells AFP one of them, Mohammed Riaz, “we wander”. “There is no room for our loved ones so we sleep in a mausoleum”.

The Pakistani army also reported that a hydroelectric dam in cashmere had been affected by an Indian strike.

Islamabad claims to have “killed five Indian planes” in the airspace of his neighbor. An Indian security source only told AFP that three hunters had crashed, without details.

India has identified 16 civilians killed, including three and five .

“My sister was at home when the shells fell,” Madasar Choudhary, 29, told AFP.

“She saw two children leaving her neighbor by running and shouted to tell them to get sheltered,” he continued. “But bursts have reached them and they …”

Many capitals have renewed their calls for restraint. “I want them to stop,” said US President Donald Trump.

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