At least five civilians who were killed after the last exchange of shots between India and Pakistan

Srinagar, India (AP) and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys from mussels and shots on their border in Kashmir overnight and killed at least five civilians in a growing military patient situation that broke out after an attack on tourists in the Indian region.

In Pakistan, an unusually intensive night with artillery exchanges left at least four civilians dead and wounded 12 more in areas near the control line that Kashmir shares, said Ahmad Ahmad, local police officer. The people in border towns said that shooting lasted until Friday morning.

“We are used to hearing the exchange of shot between Pakistan and India on the control, but last night it was different,” said Mohammad Shakil, who lives near the border in the Chakothi sector.

In India, military officers said that Pakistani troops fell their positions overnight with artillery, mortar and shots in several places in Indian -controlled cashmere. They said that Indian soldiers reacted and triggered a violent exchange until dawn.

Two people were killed and four more injured in the Uri and Poonch sectors, said the police and took the civilian fatalities in the Indian-controlled cashmere since Wednesday to 18 Pakistan that the Indian mortar and artillery fire had killed 17 civilians in Pakistani cashmere during the same period.

The Indian authorities have evacuated tens of thousands of civilians from villages near the fleeting border. Thousands of people slept in protective huts for a second night in a row.

Rivals exchange strikes and allegations

The tensions between the nuclear armed rivals have been back since a popular tourist location in India controlled cashmere on April 22, 26 civilians, mainly Hindu Indians.

On Wednesday, India carried out air strikes at several locations in the Pakistani area, which was obtained as a militant, and killed 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials. Pakistan said it shot down five Indian fighter planes.

On Thursday, India said that the Pakistani drone and rocket attacks in military goals thwarted it in more than a dozen cities, including Jammu City in Indian-controlled cashmere. Pakistan denied that it carried out drone attacks. India said it hit the air defense systems and radars in Pakistan near the city of Lahore. The incidents could not be confirmed independently.

The Indian army said on Friday that Pakistan fired around 300-400 drones overnight that violated Indian airspace to aim at almost three dozen places along the western borders. India brought down a series of drones with “kinetic and non -kinetic means”, said wing commander Vyomika Singh from the Indian Air Force of a press conference.

India ordered x to block thousands of accounts

In a statement on Thursday, the social platform X on Thursday said that the Indian government had instructed it to block users in the country to access more than 8,000 accounts, including a number of “international news organizations and other celebrities”.

The social platform has not published the list of accounts that blocked it in India, but said that the order “corresponds to the censorship of existing and future content and contradicts the fundamental right of freedom of expression”. Later X briefly blocked access to the global assistance account, from which it had published the explanation, and also cited a legal demand from India.

Crisis disturbs schools, sports and travel

India's largest domestic cricket tournament, the Indian Premier League, the top players from all over the world, has been suspended for a week. Due to the tensions, Pakistan also moved his own domestic tournament to the United Arab Emirates.

Panic also spread during an evening -Cricket match in Northern Dharamsala, where a lot of more than 10,000 people from the stadium had to be evacuated and the game was canceled by the event, according to an Associated Press.

In the meantime, several northern and West Indian states, including Punjab, Rajasthan, have closed Indian -controlled cashmere, schools and other educational institutions for two days.

The airlines in India also exposed flight operations from two dozen airports in northern and western regions by May 15, the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation said.

The effects of the border flickers could also be seen on the Indian stock markets. In the early trade on Friday, the Benchmark Sensex scored 662 points to 79,649 points, while Nifty was 50 points back on the trade with 24,058.
Vance says a war would be “nothing of our business”.

When the fears of military confrontation increase and concerned world leaders require de-escalation, the US Vice President JD Vance said that a potential war between India and Pakistan would be “nothing of our business”.

“What we can do is to try to encourage these people to de -escalate a little, but we will not get involved in the middle of the war that is basically nothing in our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it,” said Vance in an interview with FOX News.

Saaliq and Roy reported from Neu -Delhi and Ahmed from Islamabad. Associated Press Writers Ishfaq Ahmed and Roshan Mughal in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report.