The Pakistan military’s media chief, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudry, has claimed that Pakistan has “downed Indian fighter jets”, without providing any further information.
“There are two confirmed aircraft of the Indian Air Force that have already been shot down. There are other reports of multiple damages that the Pakistani forces, both on ground and air, have inflicted,” he told CNN.
India fired missiles at Pakistani territory, killing at least eight people, according to Pakistan, which said it had begun retaliating in a major escalation between the nuclear-armed rivals.
The Indian government said it had carried out "precision strikes at terrorist camps" at nine sites in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian-run side of the disputed region.
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Indian forces said they struck “terrorist infrastructure” at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir as part of Operation Sindoor.
ReplyDeleteUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken with the national security advisers of India and Pakistan, urging the two sides to “keep lines of communication open and avoid escalation”, the US State Department has said.
ReplyDeleteThe statement made on X comes after Rubio earlier said he was monitoring the situation closely and engaging with both sides “towards a peaceful resolution”.
Indian media said the strikes specifically targeted the Islamist militant groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, which are both based in Kashmir and want the region to merge with Pakistan.
ReplyDeletePakistan’s prime minister is back on X condemning India’s “cowardly” and “unprovoked” attack.
ReplyDelete“Pakistan reserves the absolute right to respond decisively to this unprovoked Indian attack — a resolute response is already under way,” Sharif wrote, according to a translation.
“The entire nation stands united behind its armed forces, and our morale and resolve remain unshaken,” he added.
India’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that at least nine sites were targeted “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned.”
ReplyDelete“Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistan military facilities have been targeted,” the statement said, adding that “India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution.”
The Pakistani government has notified the UN Security Council of its right to respond to India's strikes, Reuters reported.
ReplyDeletePakistan's Foreign Ministry said earlier that the Islamic republic has the right to use the provisions of Article 51 of the UN Charter and respond to an act of aggression at any time "as it deems necessary."
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier urged India and Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint.
India has engaged all air defense forces on the border with Pakistan, the ANI news agency reported citing Defense Ministry officials.
ReplyDelete"All air defense units have been mobilized along the India-Pakistan border to respond to any emergency," the ministry said.
Earlier, the Indian army stated that the Pakistani side had opened artillery fire along the Line of Control. Reports of exchanges of fire in various sectors of the border are coming in.
Pakistan has shelled a school in Poonch, a heavily populated district of the Indian union territory Jammu and Kashmir, Indian sources told the media.
ReplyDelete"Pakistan has shelled a school in the densely populated district of Poonch," the sources said.
Eyewitnesses shared their videos from the scene on the X social network, showing wounded children and doctors treating them.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said early Wednesday that India's strikes on Pakistani cities and Pakistan-administered Kashmir were a "cowardly attack" and that Islamabad was giving a “befitting reply” to the “act of war" by New Delhi.
ReplyDeleteIn a related development, Pakistan partially reopened its air space for regular flights on Wednesday, Geo News reported civil aviation authority.
ReplyDeletePakistan also approached the UN Security Council and told the top world body that the Indian strikes posed a threat to international peace and security.
Pakistan shot down ALL Indian fighter jets including Rafale using Chinese J-10C, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said.
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