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India fires rockets across the border with Pakistan and kills at least 1 child, say officials

Islamabad, Pakistan – In the early Wednesday, India fired in several locations in Pakistanically controlled areas in several places, killed a child and wounded two other people, said the Pakistani authorities. India said it was a remarkable infrastructure used by militants.

The tensions have risen since the tourist massacre last month in the Indian -controlled part of Kashmir between the nuclear. India is responsible for Pakistan to have supported the militant attack that Islamabad denied.

The Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the air strikes on Wednesday and said that the “fraudulent enemy had carried out attacks at five locations in Pakistan” and his country would avenge.

Officials of the security group stand in front of a damaged building in a place of a suspected attack by the Indian rockets near Muzaffarabad on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

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“Pakistan has the right to give a robust reaction to this war act imposed by India, and in fact a strong answer is given,” said Sharif.

He said that his country and his forces “know very well how to deal with the enemy”.

The rockets struck locations in Pakistani Kashmir and in the eastern province of Punjab in the country. One met a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed and a woman and a man were injured.

State Pakistani television cited security officers, said that the country's Air Force shot two Indian jets as retaliation measures, but did not provide any additional details.

The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Indian armed forces had started the strikes when they stayed in Indian airspace. Other locations were near Muridke in Punjab and Kotli in Pakistan -controlled cashmere.

Indian Child Walk on Bunker near India - Pakistan International border at the Jora Farm Village in Ranbir Singh Pura about 35 kilometers from Jammu, India, Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

Indian Child Walk on Bunker near India – Pakistan International Border in Jora Farm Village, in Ranbir Singh Pura, Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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According to reports, the attack was led to civilian victims and presented a significant threat to commercial air traffic.

“This ruthless escalation has brought the two nuclear armed states closer to a major conflict,” the explanation said.

The Indian Ministry of Defense said at least nine locations were targeted “where terrorist attacks against India were planned”.

“Our actions were focused, measured and non-escalatories in nature. No Pakistani military systems were attacked,” the explanation said that “India has shown a considerable restriction of the selection of the goals and the execution method”.

“We live in the obligation that the attacks responsible for this attack are held accountable,” the explanation says.

Sharif has convened a meeting of the National Security Committee for Wednesday morning.

Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the United Nations, said late Tuesday in a statement that General Secretary Antonio Guterres “is very concerned about the Indian military operations on the control line and the international border”, and demanded maximum military reluctance from both countries.

“The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan,” says the explanation.

In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, the resident of Abdul Sammad said that he had heard several explosions and that some people were wounded in the attack. People were panicked and the authorities immediately broke out the power supply and led to a power failure.

Waqar Noor, the interior minister of the region, said the authorities had declared an emergency in the region's hospitals.

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