Tension continues between India and Pakistan, on Wednesday, as the two parties announced the death and injuries in a mutual shelling.
On Wednesday, the Pakistani army announced that it had dropped 5 Indian aircraft in the Indian airspace, including three French -made Rafale, after a series of Indian strikes on Pakistani soil. “The Pakistani army shot down five chased and combat aircraft to respond to the enemy and self -defense,” said the spokesman for the Lieutenant -General Ahmed Chaudhry. He explained that the aircraft are “three Rafale aircraft, one of the MiG-29 and another SU.”
On the other hand, the Indian army confirmed, on Wednesday, that the “nine terrorist camps” that were targeted with Indian missiles on Tuesday night in Pakistan in response to the attack of April 22 (April) in the Indian Mashir al -Hindi. “It targeted nine terrorist camps and destroyed,” the army spokeswoman, Littinent Collonel Fiumika Singh, said, explaining that the targets were chosen to avoid any damage to civilian facilities and human losses. “
The Pakistani army announced that the Indian strikes had damaged the Pakistani dam to generate electricity in Kashmir, after the strikes on its lands. The army spokesman said that India targeted the “Nillum Gilum Energy Dam” near the border that divides the disputed Kashmir into two parts.
Before that, Indian media reports reported that 10 people were killed and 48 wounded with bombing targeting the Indian part of Kashmir.
On the other hand, “at least 26 civilians” were killed and 46 were wounded in the Indian army strikes in “six places” in Pakistan and in an exchange of fire between the two armies in the Kashmir region, according to what the Pakistani army spokesman announced on Wednesday.
The spokesman, General Ahmed Chaudhry, said that the fiercest strike harvested 13 civilians “including two children in the third” in the Bahawalbur Mosque in the Pakistani Benjab area linked, according to the Indian intelligence, with armed groups in the disputed Kashmir between the two countries.
The spokesman added: “We will respond to India at the time and place and the ways we choose.”
Earlier, a Pakistani official announced that the Indian missile shelling of the Baha and Port Mosque had killed 13 people, including women and children.
Pakistan and India have been on the lips of the war since April 22, after a attack that killed 26 people in the city of Bahgham in the Indian part of the Kashmir region. Pakistan denied any involvement in the process.
For its part, China said on Wednesday that it “regret” the Indian strikes against Pakistan, expressing its “concern” of the escalation of renewed tension between the two countries.
“We call on India and Pakistan to give priority to peace and stability, preserve calm, restraint, and avoid taking measures that increase the complications of the situation,” the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump expressed his hope that the fighting will “stop” between India and Pakistan. “It is unfortunate … I only hope that this matter will stop very quickly,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.
The White House also announced that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on Tuesday with its Indian and Pakistani counterparts and invited them to conduct a dialogue with the aim of “calming the situation” that borrowed between their two countries in the wake of their exchange of bombing.
Brian Hughes, a spokesperson for the US National Security Council, said that the foreign minister who is currently the acting of the National Security Adviser “is urging India and Pakistan to reopen a discussion channel between their leaders to defuse the crisis and avoid more escalation.”
In turn, the United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that “the world cannot bear a military confrontation” between India and Pakistan. A spokesman for the Secretary -General of the United Nations, Stephen Dujarric, said in a statement that Guterres shows his “great concern” over the current escalation and “both countries call for the maximum military restraint.”
