Pakistan minister says attack on India ‘increasingly certain’ – Kashmir crisis live | Kashmir

Pakistan’s defence minister has instructed Reuters that it’s “more and more sure” that Pakistan will assault India after it claimed Indian drones had staged incursions into Pakistan.

In feedback reported by the information company, Khawaja Asif mentioned that the US had been main worldwide efforts to de-escalate the scenario, however there was hardly any house left to de-escalate, and the battle was heading down a blind alley. Gulf nations have been additionally concerned in de-escaltion efforts, he mentioned.

He denied Indian claims to have broken Pakistan’s air defences in Lahore, and mentioned there had been no harm to Pakistan’s army websites from drones. He mentioned that any retaliation would concentrate on army websites in India.

Pakistan and India have accused one another of in a single day drone and missile assaults, with Delhi claiming to have thwarted strikes on greater than a dozen cities and Islamabad claiming to have shot down 25 Indian drones.

Indian missile strikes on Pakistan within the early hours of Wednesday killed 31 folks. Pakistan’s army spokesperson Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry earlier mentioned {that a} confrontation with an airborne Indian machine had left 4 Pakistani troopers injured, and that one civilian had been killed in an incident involving a drone.

India alleged that Pakistan had tried to launch drones and missiles at a variety of army targets in its north and west, together with within the cities of Amritsar, Srinagar and Chandigarh. It mentioned its air defence techniques stopped all of the assaults.

Tensions between the 2 international locations have escalated after greater than two dozen vacationers – largely Indian Hindus – have been shot dead in an attack by militants in Pahalgam in Indian-controlled Kashmir on 22 April.

Management of Kashmir, within the foothills of the Himalayas, has been disputed since India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain in 1947.

Each declare it in full, however every controls a bit of the territory, separated by one of many world’s most closely militarised borders: the “line of management”, based mostly on a ceasefire border established after their 1947-48 battle. India and Pakistan have gone to battle twice since over Kashmir, most lately in 1999.