Pakistan accuses India of

New Delhi -The Pakistani authorities accused Thursday of a “serious provocation” on Thursday, since the forces of the neighbors with nuclear weapons faced in the disputed cashmere region weeks after a terrorist attack against Indian tourists caused a sudden cross -border crisis. The Ministry of Defense of India, in a statement published later on Thursday, said that its unmanned aircraft strike was an answer to the Pakistani forces that fired drones and missiles in Indian military facilities during the night.

Pakistani officials said that India launched an attack with at least 13 drones on Thursday morning, all but one of which said they were demolished by the country’s own army. A military spokesman said a civilian was killed and several troops injured in the strikes.

India said he was responding to the Pakistani attacks during the night that killed 16 people, including three women and five children.

“India has undertaken another flagrant military act of aggression against Pakistan by sending Harop drones in multiple places,” Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the spokesman for the Pakistani army, said on Thursday, said at a press conference on Thursday, and added that the Indian attack, “continues and the armed forces are in a high degree of alert and neutralizing them as we speak.”

Chaudhry called the attack of drones a “serious and serious provocation” of India.

Chaudhry said the armed forces of Pakistan managed to “neutralize” 12 drones in several places, including Lahore, Gujrawala, Chakwal, Rawalpindi and one near Karachi.

“A drone, however, managed to involve a military goal near Lahore,” said Chaudhry, added that he had killed a civilian and wounded four Pakistani soldiers.

In his statement, the Indian Ministry of Defense said that the country had made clear on Wednesday that it had not been addressed to Pakistani military sites with its missile strike, calling the proportional attack.

But on Thursday that Pakistan, overnight, had “tried to involve several military objectives in the north and west of India,” listing 15 separate locations, “using drones and missiles.”

The Ministry of Defense said that drones and missiles “were neutralized”, and that the debris “are now recovering from a series of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks.”

In response, “the Indian Armed Forces attacked radars and air defense systems in a series of locations in Pakistan,” said the Ministry’s statement, describing their reaction as “in the same domain with the same intensity as Pakistan.”

The ongoing clashes arrive a day after India reached nine locations within Pakistan and Kashmir administered by Pakistan with missiles. Pakistan said that at least 26 people were killed in that missile attack on Tuesday night, which described an “act of war”, and that five other died in cross -border military clashes along the control line that divides the Indian and Pakistani portions of Kashmir.

The United States Department of State issued a new alert on Thursday, ordering all staff at the Lahore Consulate to take refuge in its place “due to drone explosions reports, fallen drones and possible air space incursions into and near Lahore.”

“The Consulate has also received initial reports that the authorities may be evacuating some areas adjacent to the main airport of Lahore,” said the alert, which was shared on the website of the State Department and on social networks. “American citizens who are in an area of ​​active conflict should leave if they can do it safely.”

The missile attack on Tuesday at night of India killed more than 100 terrorists in Pakistan and Kashmir administered by Pakistan, India Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, told politicians at a meeting on Thursday morning, according to an NDTV report of India. Singh told the leaders of the political opposition that the “Sindoor Operation” of the Indian Army “, in response to April terrorist attack, continued.

Sami Yousafzai of News themezone in Islamabad said that Pakistan’s state media showed a video on Thursday of what they said they were debris of fallen Indian drones, even in the main cities. According to the reports, one of the drones was intercepted and starry on a street bordered by food vendors in the densely populated city of Rawalpindi, not far from the general headquarters of the Pakistani army.

“It seemed that a great bird fell on us,” Ramadan Muhamad, a local merchant who witnessed the apparent shot, told News themezone on the phone. “There was no explosion, but there was a flash of light when he hit. After the accident, the army and the security forces came quickly and cordoned off the area. Even now, I cannot reach my store.”

“War in any way is ugly for humanity,” Ramadan said. “A conflict between Pakistan and India is not an ordinary war: God does not allow it, it could become a humanitarian disaster because both countries have nuclear weapons. So, if I say I have no concerns, that would not be an honest statement.”

India launched rare national preparation exercises on Wednesday, Preparation of Pakistani reprisals to missile attack, that the leaders of the nation have said they will take at the same time and in a way of choosing.

The current crisis was caused by A massacre of tourists last month in Kashmiro administered by India. Indian officials quickly accused Pakistan of supporting the terrorists who carried out the attack, but Pakistan has denied any participation.

The two nations have fought two wars and innumerable skirmishes on Kashmir, a picturesque mountain region that they claim in their entirety.

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