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India has conducted strikes in Pakistan, intense artillery fire in cashmere
India led on Tuesday to Wednesday to Pakistan on Wednesday, which retaliated by artillery fire shots in cashmere, bringing a new level in the climbing between the two nuclear powers. In the dark of the night, huge explosions were audible near Srinagar, the big city of cashmere administered by Indian, not far from the Indian army. Observed AFP journalists. In early, it is in at least five areas of Pakistan-a cashmere and in the border of the India-that heavy explosions have sounded. Pakistani Minister of Defense Khawaja Asif told AFP that three civilians, including a child, had been killed. For his part said he “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 that caused the shock in India. – “The world cannot afford” – April 22, armed men killed 26 men in the part of the cashmere administered by India. Immediately after this attack, never claimed, New Delhi accused Islamabad. Pakistan denies it. But the Indian police ensures to seek at least two Pakistani nationals among the attackers and their accomplices and assures 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 Bombay in 2008. Subhan, in Bahawalpur, in the Pakistani pendjab, linked according to Indian intelligence to groups close to the Let, notably the Jaish-e-Mohammed (Jem). Perhaps after these strikes, the cashmere has ignited, AFP journalists in the disputed area report explosions now and closer. ” Access, “threatened the AFP Minister Asif, while the Pakistani National Security Committee, a body only summoned for extreme situations, will meet in the morning.” The world cannot afford a military confrontation “between India and Pakistan, tried to plead the UN, while the two neighbors have been worth their” weeks. The Indian army, she says that Pakistan has made artillery fire on its territory, accusing it of “once again rape the ceasefire agreement by performing artillery fire in the sectors of Bhimber Gali and Poonch-Rajauri” in the Indian cashmere. She adds “to retaliate in an appropriate and calibrated way”. In the middle of these announcements, the American president Donald Trump said that the clashes between India and Pakistan “stop very quickly”. The Indian army, she says that her “action is targeted, measured and aims to avoid climbing”. “No Pakistani military installation has been targeted,” said New Delhi, believing to demonstrate a “considerable restraint”. “We are thus committed to ensuring that those responsible for this attack (April 22) are accountable,” added the Hindu ultra -nationalist government of Narendra Modi.- War of Water – Before these strikes, the American State Department had said it called India and Pakistan to India and Pakistan Work on a “responsible resolution” of their dispute. New Delhi had just threatened to “cut the water” which irrigates Pakistan, in retaliation for the murderous attack on April 22. As the next day, India had suspended its participation in a water sharing treaty signed in 1960 with its neighbor. wars. From ten nights, Indian soldiers and Pakistani exchanges light weapons along the border between their countries. Without having made victims for the moment, according to New Delhi. These last days, Pakistan, for its part, proceeded to two soil-to-ground missiles. The one led on Saturday concerned a machine with a range of 450 km, the distance which separates the Pakistani border from the Indian capital New Delhi. India must precisely lead on Wednesday civil defense exercises aimed at, according to their ministry of information, to prepare the population to “protect themselves in the event of an attack”. In this climate, the secretary of the UN Antonio Guterres exhorted the two countries on Monday to ” Precipice “.burs/SBH/ROC