After Indian attacks, Pakistan threatens with retaliation

After India’s fatal attacks on Pakistani destinations, the attacked land has announced retaliation. « Pakistan has every right to give an appropriate answer to this war imposed by India, and there is also an appropriate answer, » said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Previously, India had attacked several destinations in Pakistan at night and in Pakistanically controlled part of the unrestru region of Kashmir – in response to a terrorist attack in the unruermination around two weeks ago.

Armed attackers killed 26 people there in the Indian -controlled part on April 22 on a mountain meadow in a holiday area near the city of Pahalgam – mostly Indian tourists. The government in Neu-Delhi accuses Pakistan, which rejects Islamabad. With the Indian attack in the night of Wednesday (local time), the recent tensions between the two nuclear powers are considerably escalating. In the region, concern is growing between the two countries.

India also complains of victims and threatens

The Pakistani military spoke after the attack of eight deaths and 33. The Foreign Ministry did not give a precise number, but said that women and children were among the victims. Previously, intelligence circles had spoken of a dead child in the city of Bahawalpur in the east of Pakistan.

India also complained of victims: at least three civilians were killed in the Indian -controlled part of Kashmir, said the army, according to media reports. The Pakistani army scored arbitrarily across the control line. The Indian army will react to the shelling in an appropriate manner. The control line is considered a de facto limit and shares Kashmir between the two nuclear powers.

India: Goals are « terrorist infrastructure »

The Indian Ministry of Defense in Neu-Delhi announced that the armed forces had attacked several destinations in Pakistan and in Pakistanically controlled part of Kashmir, « from which terrorist attacks against India » assumed. The goals are « terrorist infrastructure ».

Pakistan’s military spoke of rocket attacks. Pakistani secret service circles reported the shooting of five Indian fighter jets. There was initially no confirmation by India.

According to the Indian information, nine goals were attacked. « Pakistani military facilities were not the goal. » The Ministry of Defense called its own actions « targeted, moderate and not escalating ». India practiced considerable restraint when choosing the goals and the method of execution. The Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar wrote on the X platform: « The world must not show terrorism tolerance. »

Pakistani intelligence circles and Pakistan’s army had previously reported that the cities of Kotli and Muzaffarabad in the Pakistani part of the Himalaya region of Kashmir and in the city of Bahawalpur in the province of Punjab were the goal of the attacks. A mosque was hit in Bahawalpur.

Pakistan closed its airspace for 48 hours after the attacks from India. This was announced by a spokesman for the civil aviation authority of the German Press Agency on request. The flight operations of the airports Islamabad and Lahore are also discontinued until further notice.

Very worried

UN General Secretary António Guterres was « very concerned » after the attacks. « The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan, » he said, according to his office on Tuesday (local time). He called on both nuclear powers for military reluctance.

US President Donald Trump expressed his hope that the conflict between the two nuclear powers will not escalate. « I just hope that it will end very quickly, » Trump said at an event in the White House with a view of the attack. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio wrote on platform X that he would continue to point out both the Indian and Pakistani leadership.

China asked both sides to restraint. The military campaign of India is regretted and a spokesman for the Foreign Office in Beijing said. China calls on both sides to grant peace and stability priority and avoid further actions that would complicate the situation. While the Chinese-Indian relationship is considered to be extremely tense due to border conflicts in the Himalayas Mountains, Beijing maintains close economic relationships with Pakistan.

Long dispute over Himalaya region

Since the attack around two weeks ago, both countries have overwhelmed punishments, have had, among other things, citizens of the other side and reduced diplomatic relationships. Experts particularly classified India’s decision as serious to suspend the so-called Indus water contract with the neighbor.

The contract regulates the water use of both sides of the Indus and its tributaries. Islamabad called the suspension of the contract an act of war and threatened with corresponding countermeasures.

The Kashmir region in the Himalayas is divided between Pakistan and India – but both claim the whole area for themselves. The origins of the conflict go back to the colonial period. In 1947 the British released the Indian subcontinent into independence and divided it. In addition to the predominantly Hindu India, the new state of Pakistan for Muslims emerged from the division. The violent division continues to feed a bitter rivalry to this day. Since their independence, both countries have waged three wars against each other, two of them around cashmere.