India reported a new series of attacks from Pakistan on Saturday morning, including drone strikes, which Pakistan confirmed were in response to a previous Indian attack.
“The clear escalation by Pakistan continues with a series of drone and other ammunition attacks,” the Indian military stated on its X account, referring to loud explosions heard by AFP journalists in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-administered Kashmir.
The Indian military specifically mentioned a number of “armed enemy drones” observed early in the morning in the Amritsar region of Punjab. These drones, it added, were “immediately engaged and destroyed.”
Pakistani security sources reported that Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes against India following attacks on three of its airbases overnight from Friday to Saturday.
Since Indian strikes on Pakistani soil on Wednesday in retaliation for an attack on 22 April in the Indian part of Kashmir, both nations have exchanged missile strikes, artillery fire, and drone attacks. India accuses Pakistan of supporting the jihadist group suspected of killing 26 civilians in the tourist town of Pahalgam, a claim strongly denied by Islamabad.
On Friday evening, India reported enduring a series of Pakistani drone attacks in the Indian Kashmir region for the second consecutive night.
According to reports from both sides, this military confrontation, the most serious between the two countries in two decades, has resulted in the deaths of around 50 Pakistani and Indian civilians since Wednesday.
