India-Pakistan conflict intensifies when neighbors launch new air attacks against military objectives

India and Pakistan carried out air attacks on Saturday, using drones and missiles fired from combat planes, in a new and significant escalation of the military Conflict between the two nuclear neighbors. Both nations accused the other of shooting first, claiming that they had acted in retaliation. Their respective military did not specify whether the combat planes had crossed the territory of the other, but confirmed that the planes were used in night attacks.

In an early informative session on Saturday morning, Pakistani officials said that India had launched missiles in three air bases within the country, but that most were intercepted and that the “retaliation attacks” in India were underway. The Pakistani army said that he used medium -sized Fateh missiles to aim at a storage installation of Indian missiles and air bases in Pathankot and Udhampur.

A few hours later, India accused Pakistan of attacking “the center of Medicare and the school facilities in the air bases of Srinagar, Awantiporta and Udhampur” using “UCAV, drones, long -range weapons, merodeter ammunition and combat planes to attack civil areas and military infrastructure.”

It is the last escalation in a conflict caused by a mortal terrorist attack last month that India blamed Pakistan, but for which Pakistan has denied any guilt.

Pakistan’s army spokesman, Lieutenant General Ahmad Sharif, said in televised comments that the assets of the Pakistan Air Force were safe after the Indian strikes, and added that some of the Indian missiles also arrived in the eastern province of Punjab in India.

“This is a provocation of the highest order,” said Sharif.

The Indian missiles attacked the Nur Khan Air Base in the city of Garrison in Rawalpindi, the Air Base Mueda in the city of Chakwal and the Rafiqui Air Base in the Jhang district of the Eastern Province of Punjab, according to the spokesman.

India said that its armed forces carried out attacks against the technical infrastructure centers, commands and controls of Pakistan, radar sites and weapons storage areas in Rafiqui, Murid, Chaklala, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur and Chunian, using “precision weapons launched by the air of our combat planes.”

India also said that he went to Pakistan’s radar sites in the Pasrur and Sialkot aviation base using precision ammunition.

The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, met Saturday with the country’s defense minister and other commanders.

A strong exchange of fire was heard along the control line, the de facto border between the two countries of the mountainous region of Kashmir, until Friday night, with strong explosions in the main cities and cities near the border. India said that some civilians were killed in Pakistan bombing, without giving specific figures of victims.

“The Indian Armed Forces reiterate their commitment to the non -scale, provided it is reciprocal by the Pakistan army,” said Ala Vyomika Singh commander of the Indian Air Force at a press conference on Saturday morning.

India also denied Pakistan’s claims to have destroyed an Indian S-400 Air Defense System and Air Force stations in Sirta and Surat.

On Friday, the United States Department of State said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had spoken with the Chief of the Pakistan army, also Munir, that day and “continued urging both parties to find ways to break down and offered us assistance to begin constructive conversations to avoid future conflicts.”

Secretary Rubio also spoke with Indian Foreign Minister, Jaishankar, on Saturday morning, who said: “The Indian approach has always been measured and responsible and remains so.”

Tensions among rivals with nuclear weapons have shot themselves since The attack in a popular tourist site In India, Kashmir, Kashmir, left 26 dead civilians, mostly Hindu Indian tourists, April 22. New Delhi blamed Pakistan for supporting the assault, an accusation that Islamabad rejects.

On Wednesday, India made air attacks In several places in the Pakistani territory, which described as related to militants, killing 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials. Pakistan said he demolished five Indian combat planes.

On Thursday, India said that the attacks of unmanned aircraft and Pakistani missiles were frustrated in military objectives in more than a dozen cities and towns, including the city of Jammu in Cookmira administered by the Indians. Pakistan denied that there would be drones attacks.

The rivalry between India and Pakistan on the Himalayas of Kashmir dates back to decades. Both nations claim every reason as their own territory, but each one controls only part of it. Another northeast of the region is administered by China, which has long been a friction point between Delhi and Beijing.

Arshad R. Zargar contributed to this report.

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