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Pakistan’s army said it launched a wave of short -range missiles in India early Saturday, as India targeted the air bases deep within Pakistan and military conflict between the two armed nuclear neighbors escalated closer to a full -scale war.
Pakistan said he had launched the “Bunyan-Un-Marsoos” operation called after a Quranic word, meaning a “lead wall”-a response to missile attacks and drone from May 7.
Pakistan’s army said it targeted a preservation place for the Brahmo supersonic rocket of Beas in the Indian state of Punjab, the field of air in the Indian subfire of Jammu and Kashmir and a plane at Patkot, also in Punjab.
In a night statement before Pakistan’s attacks, her army said India had begun six ballistic missiles to the three Pakistani air bases, including Nur Khan near the city of Rawalpindi, who accommodates the Army’s general headquarters. She said only a few rockets made her pass the Pakistan’s air defense, and they did not hit the “air assets”.
Late on Friday, the Indian army said Pakistan had targeted 26 places from barramul in the northern northern Kashmir in Bhuj in Gujarat, near the southern border between the two countries.
“These included suspected armed drones that pose possible threats to civil and military objectives,” she said. An Indian district official in the border town of Rajuri in Jammu administered by Indians and Kashmir was killed in shelling by Pakistan, said region Prime Minister Omar Abdullah.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Authority of the Pakistan command, which is responsible for the command and control of his nuclear arsenal, the army said on Saturday. The Airport Authority in Pakistan said the country’s airspace will close until noon.
On Wednesday, India said he had carried out “precise strikes” on what they said were terrorist camps in Pakistan and part of the controversial Kashmir region administered by Pakistan. Both countries claim Kashmir.
The attack was India’s wider military attack on its neighbor since the 1999 Cargil war, and was in response to the massive shooting of 25 Indians and a Nepal citizen at Pahalgam, a tourist center in Kashmir administered by the Indians, on April 22 blamed the attack on militants supported by Pakistan, which Pakistan denies.
Pakistan accuses India of killing 33 civilians, including seven children, after air strikes and drone began Wednesday, and officials have pledged to “retaliate” lost life.
Relations with the inter-service public, which speaks on behalf of the Pakistan army, said it began the Fatah rocket made in the country, a change of which the country had been marked on a test on Monday noticed by Army Chief Asim Munir. Posters attached to land -based omissions said the missiles were “lovingly from” the seven children that Islamabad claimed to have been killed by India on Wednesday, according to images separated by the ISPR.
India has described her strikes in Pakistan as “measured, non-essential, proportional and responsible”.
