India starts strikes via Pakistan, Islamabad, promises to defeat the score.

According to Pakistan, India fired rockets in the field of Pakistani territory in the early Wednesday, which indicates that the tensions between the nuclear armed competitors raise a larger escalation.

The Indian government said that it had attacked nine locations and described them as “precision strikes in terrorist camps” in Pakistan-submitted cashmere, days after they blamed Islamabad for a fatal attack on the Indian side of the controversial region.

Three civilians – including a child – were killed in the strikes that reached at least five locations, the Pakistani Minister of Defense Khawaja Muhammad Asif told AFP.

“The retaliation measures have already started. We will not take long for us to take into account the score,” he said and accused the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have started the strikes in order to “support” his domestic popularity.

Previously, the military military in Pakistan at the five locations in the Pakistani Kashmir and two-Bahawalpur and Muridke-in belonged to the country's most populous province of Punjab.

AFP correspondents in Pakistaner Kashmir and Punjab heard several loud explosions.

Shortly afterwards, India accused Pakistan, artillery about the control line (LOC), the de facto limit in Kashmir, who was also heard by the AFP correspondent in the region.

It was generally expected that Kaschmir from Kashmir from April 22nd last month on tourists in the cashmere in India came from armed men from the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-E-Taiba, an undefined terrorist organization.

This attack left 26 people dead, mainly Hindu men in the tourist hotspot of Pahalgam. No group has taken on responsibility.

Neu-Delhi has blamed Islamabad to have supported the attack and trigger a number of heated threats and diplomatic Tit-for-Tat measures.

Pakistan rejects the allegations, and according to the Indian army, the two sides have exchanged shots since April 24 on April 24. Pakistan also says that it did two rocket tests.

The strikes on Wednesday are a dangerous increase in friction between the South Asian neighbors, who have waged several wars in 1947 since their independence.

The international community has stretched pressure on Pakistan and India for days to step down from the edge of the war.

“The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan,” said the spokesman for the UN chief Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, in an explanation and added that guterres demanded “maximum reluctance”.

When asked about the strikes, US President Donald Trump said reporters in Washington, he hoped that the fights “end very quickly”.

The Indian embassy in Washington said that the national security advisor of Neu -Delhi, Ajit Doval, informed about the strikes US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

– Explosions near LOC –

The Indian army said in a video that was published on its X account after the strikes on Wednesday, “justice is served”. New Delhi added that their actions are “concentrated in nature, measured and non-escalatory”.

“No Pakistani military facilities were targeted,” added. “India has shown a considerable restriction of the selection of the goals and the execution method”.

The Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who described the Indian attack as “unprovoked” and “Feige”, said that the “hideous act of aggression” would not be impossible.

Indian fighter planes were flying over Srinagar, the capital of the Indian Kashmir.

Loud explosions could also be heard in the city of Poonch, just about 16 kilometers from the LOC.

Rebels in the Indian cashmere administered have been uprising since 1989 that are looking for independence or a merger with Pakistan.

India regularly accuses its neighbors to support armed groups who fight against its armed forces in Kashmir, an indictment that Islamabad denies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to mediate in Neu -Delhi on Wednesday, two days after a visit to Islamabad.

India should also hold several civilian defense exercises on Wednesday, while schools in Pakistan's Punjab were closed, the local government officials said.

The strikes came only a few hours after modes said that water that flows across the borders would be stopped. Pakistan had warned that manipulating the rivers that flow into its territory from India would be a “act of war”.

Modi did not specially mentioned Islamabad, but his speech came after New Delhi had suspended its part of the 65-year-old Indus water contract that regulates water for Pakistan for consumption and agriculture.

“India's water went outside earlier, now it will flow for India,” Modi said in a speech in Neu -Delhi.

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