- Pakistan addresses the Indian bases in the midst of a growing conflict.
- Pakistan says he responds to the missile attacks of Indian aircraft.
- UU. Ask both countries for diplomatic delay.
Pakistan said he summoned a meeting on Saturday of the upper body that supervises his nuclear arsenal after he launched a military operation against India early in the morning, aimed at multiple bases, including a missile storage site in northern India.
The Indian army said after the attacks that Pakistan continued his “shameless climb” with drone attacks and using other ammunition along the western border of India, and that his “enemy designs” would be frustrated.
The so -called diplomats for decallation, even in the United States, intensified as nuclear weapons neighbors increased their worst fighting in three decades.
Pakistan said that, before his offensive, India had triggered three air base missiles, including a close to the capital, Islamabad, but Pakistani aerial defenses intercepted most of them.
The Office of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he had summoned a meeting of the National Command Authority, a maximum body of civil and military officers that supervises decisions about his nuclear arsenal.
Analysts and diplomats have been feared for a long time that the conflict between archirival can increase the use of nuclear weapons, in one of the most dangerous and populated nuclear inflammation point regions in the world.
The planning minister, Ahsan IQBAL said the climbing was a test for the international community. “We would hate to see that the threshold (nuclear) is violated.”
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, called the Chief of the Army of Pakistan, also Munir, on Friday morning, according to the United States Department of State.
“He continued to urge both parties to find ways to descalize and offered us assistance to start constructive conversations to avoid future conflicts,” said state department spokesman Tammy Bruce.
Locked in a long dispute over Kashmir, the two countries have been involved in daily clashes since Wednesday when India launched strikes inside Pakistan about what she called “terrorist infrastructure.” Pakistan promised to retaliate.
The National Command Authority meeting indicated an alarming escalation, analysts said.
“It is a soft nuclear signal but also well in line with the Pakistan nuclear doctrine of first -use and realistically reflects where we are on the climbing staircase, which is quite high, after multiple dollars between both sides, and also lacks precedents,” said Asfandyar Mir, a senior fellow of southern Asia in the center of Stimson.
An Indian army statement on X said that multiple armed drones were flying over the Holy City of Amritsar in the state of Punjab of India and were destroyed by their defense units.
Pakistan planning minister said in a transmission interview that he was not aimed at civilians and that would only be directed to places that had been used for action against Pakistan.
The Indian and foreign ministries would jointly inform the media at 10:30 am (0500 GMT), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a notice to the media.
Pakistan information minister said in a publication at the social media site X that the military operation was appointed “Operation Bunyanun Marsoos”. The term is taken from the Quran and means a firm and united structure.
“The Brahmmos storage site has been drawn in the general area of Beas,” said Pakistan’s army in a message to journalists, adding that the Pathankot airfield in the western state of Punjab of India and the Udhampur Air Force station in the Indian Kashmir were also affected.
Explosions sounds were reported in Jammu and Kashmir (Iiojk), illegally occupied. Reuters The witness said.
“India through its airplanes launched air to surface missiles … The base of Nur Khan, the base of Muroados and the Shorkot base were targets,” said Pakistan’s military spokesman, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry in a night televised statement.
Iojk Omar Abdullah’s prime minister said in a statement that a local administration official had been killed by bombing in Rajouri, near the control line that divides the disputed region.
One of the three air bases that Pakistan said was attacked by India, is located in the city of Garrison in Rawalpindi, on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad. The other two are found in the Eastern province of Punjab in Pakistan, which limits with India.
Pakistani military spokesman said that only a few missiles went through air defenses, and those did not reach any “air assets”, according to initial damage evaluations.
India has said that his attacks on Wednesday, which began the last clashes between the countries, were in retaliation for a deadly attack against Hindu tourists in Jammu and Kashmir, occupied by the Indians, last month.
Pakistan denied India’s accusations that he was involved in the tourist attack. Since Wednesday, the two countries have exchanged fire and cross -border bombings, and have sent drones and missiles to the airspace of the other.
Much of the Friday’s fighting was in Iiojk and states that border Pakistan. India said that Drones Pakistani knocked out.
The group of seven countries urged the maximum restriction on Friday and asked the two countries to participate in a direct dialogue. The High Commissioner from the United Kingdom to Pakistan, Jane Marriott, said in a statement on the social media platform X that they were closely monitoring the developments.
Sounds of explosions were also heard in the Pakistani Eastern City of Lahore and in the northwest city of Peshawar, while the fighting threatened to spread.
At least 48 people have been killed since Wednesday, according to victims’ estimates on both sides of the border that have not been verified independently.
