India strikes Pakistan killing at least 19 in wake of Kashmir terror attack

Shortly after India’s strikes,aircraft fell in two villages in India-controlled Kashmir.

State-run Pakistan Television,quoting security officials,said the country’s air force shot down five Indian jets in retaliation but provided no additional detail.

There was no immediate comment from India about Pakistan’s claim. Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said Indian forces had launched the strikes from inside Indian airspace.

Explosions have been reported across at least three areas in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan (Picture: X)

Since a 2003 ceasefire,to which both countries recommitted in 2021,targeted strikes between the neighbours are extremely rare,especially Indian strikes on Pakistani areas outside Pakistani Kashmir.

South Asia analyst Michael Kugelman said it was one the highest-intensity strikes from India on its rival in years and that Pakistan’s response would ‘surely pack a punch as well’.

‘These are two strong militaries that,even with nuclear weapons as a deterrent,are not afraid to deploy sizeable levels of conventional military force against each other,’ Kugelman said.

‘The escalation risks are real. And they could well increase,and quickly.’

مکار دشمن نے پاکستان کے پانچ مقامات پر بزدلانہ حملہ کیا ہے.پاکستان بھارت کی مسلط کردہ اس جنگی عمل کا بھرپور جواب دینے کا پورا حق رکھتا ہے اور بھرپور جواب دیا جا رہا ہے.پوری قوم افواج پاکستان کے ساتھ ہے اور پوری پاکستانی قوم کا مورال اور جذبہ بلند ہے.پاکستانی قوم اور افواج…

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US President Donald Trump called the fighting ‘a shame’ and added: ‘I hope it ends quickly.’

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement late on Tuesday that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for maximum military restraint from both countries.

‘The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan,’ the statement read.

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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has said that all domestic and international flights on the ground have been put on hold and all inbound and outbound flights are being diverted to Karachi.

Authorities have advised passengers not to come to the airport and to return home.

Kashmir,which both India and Pakistan claim in full but administer only in part,has been a flashpoint between the two nations since Partition in 1947.