Border crises intensified as Pakistan and India exchanged fire overnight, 26 civilians, including children and women martyred, while 46 civilians were injured in the cowardly Indian attacks.
Following the Indian attacks on several locations in Pakistan and its administered Kashmir on the night of May 6-7, Pakistani military spokespersons are giving details of the damage caused.
According to the Pakistani military spokesperson, on the night of May 6-7, India targeted six different locations in Pakistan and its administered Kashmir, killing 26 civilians and injuring 46.
According to Pakistani military spokesperson Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the details of these deaths are as follows:
The Subhan Allah Mosque was targeted in the city of Ahmedpur Sharqia in Punjab province, resulting in the death of 13 people. The dead include two three-year-old girls, seven women and four men. 37 people, including nine women and 28 men, were injured in the incident.
The Bilal Mosque near the city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir was targeted, resulting in the death of three while a girl and a boy were injured.
The Abbas Mosque in the city of Kotli in Pakistan-administered Kashmir was targeted, killing a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy. A mother and daughter were injured in the attack.
The Umm Al-Qura Mosque in the city of Muridke in Punjab province was targeted, killing three men and wounding one.
There were no reports of casualties in the attacks in the cities of Sialkot and Shakargarh in Punjab.
According to a Pakistani military spokesman, five civilians, including a five-year-old child, were killed in unprovoked Indian firing along the Line of Control during the same period.
Delhi said in the early hours of Wednesday morning that nine different locations had been targeted in both Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan.
Delhi said that nine different locations had been targeted in both Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan, calling these places “terrorist infrastructure”.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told that the strikes hit civilian areas, adding that India’s claim of “targeting terrorist camps” is false.
Updates from Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK)
Six people, including a woman, have been killed in shelling in Indian-Occupied Kashmir’s Mendhar and Poonch districts.
The deaths were confirmed by Poonch’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Parvez Ahmed Khan, speaking to the BBC’s Riaz Masroor over the phone.
Since the Pahalgam attack, both India and Pakistan have been accusing each other of violating the Line of Control and shelling civilian areas.
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There have been reports of heavy shelling by both armies on the Line of Control after India fired missiles at various places in Pakistan as part of Operation Sindoor on Tuesday night.
Pakistan has claimed to have targeted several Indian posts, while India has also made similar claims, which could not be verified.
Earlier, Indian news agency ANI claimed, quoting the Indian army, that ‘on the night of May 6 and 7, the Pakistani army resorted to unprovoked firing and artillery shelling across the Line of Control and the International Border, in front of Jammu and Kashmir.’
The Indian army claims that ‘three civilians were killed as a result of this firing and shelling.’
The news agencies Reuters and AFP have also quoted the Indian army as saying that three Indian citizens have been killed in Indian-administered Kashmir as a result of Pakistani shelling.
The wreckage of a plane that crashed in Pampore town of Pulwama in Indian-administered Kashmir is being moved with the help of a bulldozer.
The wreckage of a plane that crashed in different parts of the town is being collected.
They say that an Indian Air Force team is also at the scene to inspect the wreckage, but the authorities have not yet confirmed which plane it was or which country it belonged to.
Banned Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar has said that 10 members of his family and four close associates were killed in the Indian attack on the Subhan Allah Mosque in Bahawalpur.
In a statement issued by him on Wednesday, it was claimed that the deceased included Maulana Masood Azhar’s elder sister and her husband, Masood Azhar’s nephew and his wife, another niece and five children of his family.
The statement also said that a close associate of Masood Azhar and his mother, along with two other close associates, were also killed in the attack on Tuesday night.
The statement criticized Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said, “This atrocity has broken all norms, now no one should expect mercy.”
NSC Meeting
The National Security Committee (NSC) has said that Pakistan reserves the right to respond to India’s airstrikes in “self-defence” at a time, place and manner of its choosing, with the military authorise to take “corresponding actions”.
Citing Article 51 of the UN Charter, the NSC said Pakistan has the right to retaliate in self-defence to “avenge the loss of innocent Pakistani lives and blatant violation of its sovereignty”.
“The armed forces of Pakistan have duly been authorised to undertake corresponding actions in this regard,” read the statement.
“Deeply anguished by India’s naked aggression, the entire Pakistani nation greatly appreciates and admires the bravery and courage of the armed forces and their timely action in the defence of their motherland. The nation stands galvanised and resolute in the face of any further aggression,” it read.
