Musafarabad, Pakistan/New Delhi (Reuters) -Nine attacked nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Kashmir on Wednesday with the least reported three deaths, and Pakistan said it reacted, as the younger battles have erupted between long -standing enemies.
The army of nuclear armed neighbors exchanged intense firing and heavy firing across their border in the contested cashmere in at least three places, police and witnesses told Reuters.
The offensive of India happened against the background of increased tension after an attack on Hindu tourists in the Indian cashmere last month. Islamist attackers killed 26 men in the attack on April 22, with the worst of such violence aimed at civilians in India for nearly two decades.
Pakistan said India launched rockets in three places, but the Indian government’s statement did not detail the nature of the strikes. India said it had hit a “terrorist infrastructure”, where attacks were planned and targeted at it.
Indian television channels showed a video of explosions, fire, large flows in the night sky, and people who run in several places in Pakistan and Pakistan Kashmir. Reuters could not independently check the frames.
Witnesses and one police officer on two sites on the border in the Indian cashmere said they had heard strong explosions and intense artillery firing, as well as jets in the air.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad reacted to Indian attacks but did not provide details. US President Donald Trump called the situation “shame” and added, “I hope it ends quickly.”
An emergency situation has been announced in the populated province of Pakistan in Punjab, its chief minister said, and hospitals and emergency services are on the alert.
“A while ago, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Syndor, hitting the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and the occupied in Pakistan Jamu and Kashmir, where terrorist attacks against India were planned and targeted,” the Indians said.
“Our actions are focused, measured and non -escalating in nature. No Pakistani military facilities are directed. India demonstrates a significant restriction on the selection of goals and method of implementation,” the statement said.
Pakistan says two mosques were hit
A Pakistani military spokesman told the television operator Geo that sites hit by India include two mosques and said there were at least three deaths and 12 people injured.
Pakistan’s Defense Minister Hawaja Mohammed Asif told Geo that all sites aimed at India are civil, not militant camps.
He said India has fired missiles from its own airspace and India’s claim to go to “terrorist camps is false.”
After India’s strikes, the Indian army said in a publication on X on Wednesday: “Justice is serviced.”
Strike news news affected the stock futures in India with the NSE NSE Nifty 50 Index, which drops by 1.19% at the CITY Financial Center.
After the explosions in Musafarabad, the authorities were drawn, the capital of Pakistan Kashmir, witnesses said.
India accused Pakistan of violence last month, in which 26 men were killed and promised to react. Pakistan denied that it had something to do with the killings and said there was intelligence that India plans to attack.
The name of India’s military operation, Syndor, is obviously a reference to women who lost their spouses in the attack on Hindu tourists in Pahalgam last month.
Sindoor is Hindi for the traditional Red Vermilion, worn by married Hindu women on their forehead, symbolizing protection and marriage. Women traditionally stop wearing it when they are widowed.
(Reporting Asif Shahhz Zhitz, Giber Pisham, Ariba Shahid in Pakistan, Shivwam Patel, Tanny Mehta in New Delhi, Fayaz Bukhari in Srinagar; Writing by YP Rajesh; Edit by Cynthia Osterman)