The fight between India and Pakistan intensified sharply on Saturday, with both parties aimed at air bases and military sites, and each blaming the other for hitting first.
Pakistan said that India had pointed at least three of its air bases with surface air missiles in the early hours of Saturday, including Nur Khan, a key installation of the Air Force near the capital, Islamabad. Witnesses in the city of Rawalpindi, where Nur Khan is located, informed having heard at least three strong explosions, and one describes a “great fireball” visible from miles away.
In a matter of hours, Pakistan said he had retaliation using surface surface missiles against several places in India, including the Udhampur and Pathankot air bases and a missile storage installation. “One eye for an eye,” said the Pakistani army in a statement.
India, however, said that he had achieved several Pakistani military objectives, two of them radar sites, in response to a wave of Pakistani attacks in 26 locations using donuts, long -range weapons and combat planes. There was “limited damage” to the team and staff in four bases of the Air Force, said Vyomika Singh, an Indian military spokeswoman, at a press conference on Saturday.
“It is the Pakistani actions that have constituted provocation and climbing. In response, India has defended and reacted in a responsibility and measure,” said Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Miskri.
Among the statements and leading statements, it was increasingly clear that the night involved part of the heaviest military commitment on both sides from the armed confrontation on Wednesday.
Both countries say they want to decrease, but confrontation has only intensified since India made air attacks in Pakistan on Wednesday. India had accused Pakistan or house terrorist groups that carried out a deadly attack against tourists last month in Kashmir controlled by India. Pakistan has denied participation.
Since then, the crisis has become the most expansive confrontation between the two nations in half a century, with fierce fighting along its border attacks and drones and other strikes that hit more deeply within each country. Each response comes with waves of claims, contradictory claims and misinformation.
That has caused alarms worldwide and diplomatic efforts to calm the crisis of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and other things with strong ties with India and Pakistan.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spoke with the head of the Army of Pakistan, the general also, on Friday in his last attempt to relieve tensions. Mr. Rubio “continued to urge both parties to find ways to descalize and offered us assistance to begin constructive conversations to avoid future conflicts,” said Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the State Department, in a statement.
The foreign ministers of the group of 7 industrialized nations also urged “the maximum rest of India and Pakistan” and warned Friday that “a greater military escalation raises a serious threat to regional stability.”
But diplomatic pressure, including visits to Islamabad and New Delhi by delegations of countries, including Saudi and Iran Arabia, has failed so far.
The Vice Primer Minister of Pakistan, Ishaq Dar, said on Saturday morning that his government had no choice but to respond. “This is measured and provided, and the recovery of what they have done,” he said in Geo News, a Pakistani television channel.
“Now this has begun,” he added. “Where everything ends deepens of India.”
His statement reflected what India has said this week, describing his attacks as proportional and designed to allow reduction in reduction.
Without an out of view, there are fears among the people of India and Pakistan about what could snack below.
India and Pakistan became separate countries in 1947, and have fought three wars, with coffee disputes as part of each. One of those wars, in December 1971, established the so -called control line that divides Kashmir.
Qasim nauman Contributed reports.
