Pakistan accuses India of attack and starts counterattack

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Pakistan accuses India of attack and starts counterattack

The tensions between India and Pakistan continue to escalate. Indian fighter jets are said to have attacked several military bases in the neighboring country. Pakistan reacts with more than just pithy words.

Pakistan has accused the neighbor India rocket attacks at several military base points and started a counterattack. The Pakistani government announced during the night that attacks were warded off at three military bases in the province of Punjab without being victims or damage. The military then started the “Bunjan Operation”. According to Pakistani state media, several Indian military goals were hit and destroyed. At first there was no official confirmation from the opposite side.

Explosions had previously been reported from several cities in Pakistan. According to the army information, individual floors fired by Indian fighter jets overranged the air defense, but did not do any damage. “Every centimeter of our homeland is defended,” announced the Pakistani government on the X. India platform is obviously willing to continue his “aggression” – and the Pakistani forces are prepared to defend the country’s security.

Previously, the Indian side had spoken of another night with Pakistani drone attacks in the north and west of the most populous state on earth. Accordingly, two members of a family were seriously injured in a combat drone attack in the civilian area.

The airspace via Pakistan has been closed for aircraft from 3:15 a.m. (local time; 00.15 CEST) until today, as several media reported, citing the national aviation authority. Previously, according to Indian media, civil flight operations at 32 airports in the north and western India had been hired by order of the authorities until next Wednesday.

On Friday, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his defense minister, the national security consultant and the management team of the army. The results of the consultations were not informed.

The G7 group of leading industrialized nations called on both parties to conflict to practice maximum reluctance and to bring about a peaceful solution in the common dialogue. “Further military escalation is a serious threat to the stability of the region. We are deeply concerned about the security of civilians on both sides,” said a group of states, which, in addition to Germany, but also the USA, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and Great Britain as well as the foreign representative of the European Union.

India’s attacks are considered a response to a terrorist attack on April 22nd in the Indian Union territory Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed – most of them Indian tourists. India’s government accuses Pakistan of participating, which rejects the leadership in Islamabad. The Kaschmir border area is also an eternal conflict stove between the two sides. The region is divided between Pakistan and India, but both raise demands in the area.

The actual origins of the conflict go back to the colonial period. In 1947 the British released the Indian subcontinent into independence and divided it. In addition to the predominantly Hindu India, the new state of Pakistan for Muslims emerged from the division. The violent division continues to feed a bitter rivalry to this day. Since their independence, the two countries have waged three wars against each other, two of them around Kashmir.