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Anti-Indian protests have continued in some locations in Pakistan. In Multan an effigy of India’s prime minister Narendra Modi was burned, and in Chaman an Indian flag was trampled underfoot.
India’s defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has defended his nation’s current actions in a press release, saying “We now have at all times performed the function of a accountable nation”. He didn’t rule out additional Indian navy motion.
He mentioned “We now have at all times been in favour of resolving issues by way of dialogue. However this doesn’t imply that anybody ought to take unfair benefit of our endurance. If anybody tries to make the most of our endurance, then they should be absolutely ready to face motion identical to yesterday. We’re ready for such a accountable response sooner or later as properly.
Reuters has a fast snap to say that Pakistan’s overseas minister has informed the information company that the India-Pakistan hotline is working, and there was contact between the places of work of the respective nationwide safety advisers.
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India’s exterior minister has at this time been internet hosting Iran’s overseas minister. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar posted on social media to say he had briefed Abbas Araqchi on “regional and world developments.”
Upon his arrival in India this morning, Araqchi had urged restraint between Pakistan and India. Reuters studies Iran’s consultant mentioned “We hope that India and Pakistan will stop the escalation of pressure within the area. Our area wants peace, particularly to increase financial cooperation between regional nations, and we hope it will occur.”
Araqchi visited Pakistan earlier this week, two days earlier than India launched its missile strikes inside Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
Photos on the information wires present the aftermath of alleged assaults on each side of the India–Pakistan border and within the long-disputed territory of Kashmir.
India claims to have neutralised air defence in Lahore in response to Pakistan assault
India’s authorities has mentioned it has been recovering particles from quite a lot of places after it accused Pakistan of launching an assault utilizing drones and missiles.
“Pakistan tried to interact quite a lot of navy targets … utilizing drones and missiles,” India’s defence ministry mentioned in a press release, including that “these have been neutralised” by air defence programs.
“The particles of those assaults is now being recovered from quite a lot of places,” it added.
The defence ministry mentioned that on Thursday morning its navy had “focused air defence radars and programs at quite a lot of places in Pakistan”, saying that the “response has been in the identical area, with the identical depth, as Pakistan.”
It claimed that it had “reliably learnt that an air defence system at Lahore has been neutralised.”
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India fired assault drones into Pakistan on Thursday, with one wounding 4 troopers, the Pakistani navy claimed, a day after missiles struck a number of places and killed greater than two dozen individuals. A number of drones have been shot down, officers mentioned
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Hours after the primary drone assaults, India’s defence ministry mentioned it focused air defence programs in a number of places in Pakistan, however didn’t say whether or not it used drones
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India alleged that Pakistan had tried to launch drones and missiles at quite a lot of navy targets in its north and west, together with within the main cities of Amritsar, Srinagar and Chandigarh. It mentioned its air defence programs stopped all of the assaults
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Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours have soared since gunmen killed 26 individuals, principally Indian Hindu vacationers, within the India-controlled a part of Kashmir final month. India accused Pakistan of being behind the assault. Islamabad denies that
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Indian strikes on Wednesday killed 31 civilians, together with ladies and youngsters, in line with Pakistani officers
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Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to avenge the deaths within the strikes, elevating fears that the 2 nations could possibly be headed towards one other all-out battle.
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