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India and Pakistan announced plans for school closures today across a number of areas amid the escalation in fighting.
Indian local authorities said all education institutions in a number of towns in the area of Indian-administered Kashmir would be closed today.
Meanwhile, schools were also shuttered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, with officials citing the “prevailing security situation.” They said any scheduled examinations would proceed as planned, however.
A group gathers around a large piece of fallen debris, believed to be from an aircraft, in Wuyan in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday.
Reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan
Pakistan said today it has shot down five Indian aircraft, a claim yet to be confirmed by India.
The country’s military shot down the Indian fighters jets during their attack in self-defense, Pakistan security officials said.
A drone was also shot down in Pakistan, the officials added.
Reporting from New Delhi
The Indian military, in its first news briefing addressing the overnight strikes in Pakistan said, it only targeted “nine terrorist camps.”
Indian army officer Col. Sofiya Qureshi presented videos showing multiple hits on what she said were terrorist camps, including in the city of Mundrike.
“No military installation was targeted, and till now there are no reports of civilian casualties in Pakistan,” she said.
Pakistani officials have said a mosque was hit in Muridke, where they said three people were killed and another civilian was injured. The Indian military has yet to respond to that claim.
India’s aerial strikes on Pakistan began at 1:05 a.m. today (3:35 p.m. ET Tuesday) and lasted for 25 minutes, Col. Sofiya Qureshi, an Indian army officer said at a news briefing, adding no military sites were targeted.
The military strikes was launched to “bring justice to the innocent victims of the Pahalgam terror attack and their families,” she said.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on both India and Pakistan to exercise restraint amid the escalating violence.
“The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan,” Guterres said in a statement published yesterday.
Guterres had earlier warned that tensions between the two nuclear powers were at “their highest in years” and offered U.N. mediation, saying “a military solution is no solution.”
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said it had summoned an Indian diplomat today to condemn India’s multiple strikes on its territory.
The Indian chargé d’affaires has received Pakistan’s “strong protest” over India’s “unprovoked” attacks that killed civilians including women and children, the ministry said in a statement.
India denied targeting civilians and said its strikes hit only “terror camps,” some of which it said were linked to the Islamist militant attack that killed 26 people last month in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Islamabad said it “firmly rejected India’s baseless justifications for its hostile conduct,” accusing India of committing a “blatant act of aggression” in violation of its sovereignty.
The ministry also warned India that its “reckless behavior poses a serious threat to regional peace and stability.”
Reporting from New Delhi
New Delhi says it has intelligence that indicates “further attacks against India are impending,” adding that it has exercised its right to respond to deter cross-border terrorism.
“Our actions were measured and non-escalatory, proportionate and responsible,” Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told a news briefing this morning. “They focused on dismantling terrorists’ infrastructure.”
India blames Pakistan for a terrorist attack last month that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, which Misri said aimed to “sabotage the return of normalcy and stability to Kashmir” — the Himalayan region claimed by both India and Pakistan. Pakistan denies involvement in the attack and Misri did not cite any evidence.
A number of Asian airlines said they will re-route or canceling flights due to the escalation in fighting between India and Pakistan.
Taiwan’s EVA Air, Korean Air and Thai Airways were among those to announce changes as of this morning, Reuters reported.
On its website, EVA Air urged passengers to check the flight status of any upcoming travel to and from Europe before heading to the airport.
Data published on flight tracking website Flightradar24.com showed the airspace over Pakistan almost entirely clear as of early Wednesday morning, with commercial airlines appearing to avoid the region after India launched missiles at its neighbor.
India’s strike on Pakistan had been widely expected after Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed retribution for the April 22 terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 26 people, most of them tourists.
India has long accused neighboring Pakistan of supporting cross-border terrorism in Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan region that is the only Muslim-majority part of India. Indian police said some of the gunmen involved in the Kashmir attack had ties to militant groups based in Pakistan.
Pakistan denies involvement and has called for a “neutral” investigation into the attack. In recent days, Pakistani officials said they anticipated military action by India, which like Pakistan is a nuclear power.
Reporting from Peshawar, Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — India launched missiles at neighbor and rival Pakistan on Wednesday, dramatically escalating tensions between the nuclear powers two weeks after a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people.
Calling them an “act of war,” Pakistan said the strikes, which according to India hit nine locations across the Pakistani province of Punjab and in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killed 26 people and injured 46 others. Among the dead were six people killed at two mosques and two teenagers who were killed elsewhere, Pakistani officials said.
India said the strikes hit only “terror camps” and no civilian targets. It said it had exercised “considerable restraint” in its selection of targets and did not strike any military facilities.
“Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature,” the Indian defense ministry said in a statement.
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