Pakistan’s military spokesman announced on Friday it would not “de-escalate” with India, following days of drone, artillery and missile strikes. We will not de-escalate — with the damages that India inflicted on our side, they should take a hit,” Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told reporters at a briefing.
Pakistan on Thursday launched new attacks on three Indian military bases in Kashmir with missiles and drones but there were no casualties, the Indian military reported, a claim Islamabad refuted. India reported that “the threat was neutralised. with kinetic and non-kinetic means,” and added that the bases attacked were in “Jammu, Pathankot and Udhampur near the international border.”.
We can also listen to deafening explosions, it is as if bombs are exploding all around,” BJP senior member Varinder Jeet Singh explained about Jammu. I saw several explosions and power was suspended,” said Jammu resident Liyakat, who provided only one name.
Shesh Paul Vaid, a former Jammu and Kashmir director general of police, also posted on social media that there were “loud explosions”. A security official, not authorised to speak publicly, confirmed the explosions. Liyakat, a resident of Jammu who only provided one name, said: “I heard many explosions and electricity was cut off.”
Shesh Paul Vaid, ex-director general of police for Jammu and Kashmir, posted on social media that there were “loud explosions”. Pakistani Minister for Information Attaullah Tarar dismissed that the Pakistani army had conducted strikes in Jammu on Thursday.
India fired missiles on Wednesday, asserting that it had struck “terrorist camps”, and Pakistan responded by scrambling warplanes and firing artillery shells. A day after that, India and Pakistan blamed each other for conducting waves of drone strikes. There have been at least 48 fatalities on both sides since the escalation, 32 of them in Pakistan and children among them.
