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India and Pakistan exchanged more strikes overnight in the latest escalation in the crisis that was sparked by the April 22 terrorist attack on Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir which New Delhi blamed Islamabad for.
Early on May 10, the Pakistani military said that India fired missiles at key bases in Pakistan, including an air base close to Islamabad.
The majority of the missiles were intercepted, military spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, adding that the missiles that came down did not cause damage.
“India hit Nur Khan Air Base, Shorkot Air Base and Murid Air Base from their jets, all were intercepted. India also launched missiles and drones at Afghanistan,” the spokesman said in a live broadcast aired by state television.
Pakistani air defenses “successfully intercepted cruise missiles fired at Rafiqui Air Force Base in Shorkot,” Lt. Gen. Chaudhry added.
While the spokesman claimed that there was no damage, footage posted online showed what appears to be a C-130 military cargo plane at Nur Khan Air Base on fire.
Just a few hours after the missile attack, the Pakistani military announced that it began a retaliatory operation against India.
“Pakistan responds!!” the military announced in a brief statement, calling its retaliation “Operation Bunyanun Marsoos,” a reference to a Quranic verse, and it means “unbreakable wall.”
“Brahmos storage site has been taken out,” the military said, adding that attacks on various other places are in progress.
The Pakistani military said that, in an “eye for eye” retaliation, they targeted the Indian air bases that were used to launch missiles on Pakistan.
The strikes hit several targets in India and Indian-administered Kashmir, including Brigade Headquarters KG Top, Field supply depot Uri, Artillery Gun Position Derangyari, BrahMos battery site Nagrota, Udhampur airfield, Pathankot airfield and Suratgarh airfield.
Videos released by the Pakistani military showed multiple rocket launchers firing multiple Fatah-1 precision-guided artillery rockets. The locally-made munition is guided by a GPS-aided inertial navigation system with a range of 140 kilometers and a circular error probable down to 30 meters.
Most of these sites are near or along the so-called Line of Control (LoC), the facto border that divides the disputed Kashmir region between New Delhi and Islamabad. Pathankot, in Punjab state, and Suratgarh, in Rajasthan state, are airfields inside India’s undisputed borders.
Pakistani media later reported that an S-400 long-range air defense system was targeted in Udhampur Footage posted to social networks showed some smoke near the airfield.
Later on in the morning, the Indian military said that it had intercepted drones “and other munitions” fired by Pakistan, without providing specific numbers.
“Pakistan’s blatant escalation with drone strikes and other munitions continues along our western borders,” the Indian military said in a statement.
Multiple “armed drones” were spotted flying over a military base in Amritsar in Punjab in the early morning, the military continued .
“The hostile drones were instantly engaged and destroyed by our air defense units,” it added.
In addition to the exchange of strikes, Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged artillery fire along the LoC all morning. In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, 11 people were reportedly killed. Meanwhile, in the Indian-administered part of the region, a local official was killed.
The United States and China have already called for de-escalation. However, the crisis sparked by the Pahalgam and the Indian strikes later on May 7, appears to be still far from being over. Despite this, an all-out war between the two nuclear countries remains highly unlikely.
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subcontinental brothers are falling for the trap. west provokes wars by supporting fake muslim groups. you should know this script by now
so what are the dancers supposed to do? just ignore the atrocity like moscow did with crocus hall?
what good comes from ignoring reality and constantly putting off conflicts that will happen regardless?
clearly pakistani i.s.i has problems with cia double agents and india is being prodded by israeli mossad. usa used the afghan war to infiltrate pakistan. pakistan and india needs to cleanse itself from these viruses. indian trolls are the only ones supporting idf in twitter. all you see is indians posting bullshits. indian programmers also help design those terrible israeli a.i assisted drones of death that killed 10000s gazans in early 2024
on the opposite, pakistan meddled too much into afghanistan’s affairs. just search on youtube “pakistan supports taliban pashtun card” and “pakistan supports taliban in afghanistan pt.5”. pakistan destroyed afghanistan with the usa. that’s a well-known fact. pakistan was created by the imperialists in the first place to destroy afghanistan after britain lost three wars against afghans.
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now the world has something else to entertain them besides the antics of moron trump. gee, this couldn’t be why ‘someone’ started this little dust-up? when will people in this world realize just how much of this is for theatrical entertainment diversion from real problems, from real problem makers?
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india is the weak link in brics (alongside with brazil)… russia should go full china!
like europe went full usa offended both russia and china and now wakes up in a world where the usa are no longer a reliable partner? no one should be depended on just one partner no matter who this partner is.