Pakistan accuses India of provocation as drone hits military facility

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Breaking down past of India-Pakistan struggle

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New Delhi — Pakistani authorities accused India connected Thursday of a "serious provocation" arsenic the nuclear-armed neighbors' forces clashed successful the disputed Kashmir portion weeks aft a panic onslaught connected Indian tourists sparked abrupt cross-border crisis.

Pakistani officials said India launched an onslaught with astatine slightest 13 drones aboriginal Thursday morning, each but 1 of which they said were changeable down by the country's ain military.

"India has undertaken yet different blatant subject enactment of aggression against Pakistan by sending Harop drones astatine aggregate locations," Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the Pakistani Army spokesman, said astatine a property briefing connected Thursday, adding that the Indian attack, "continues, and the equipped forces are connected precocious grade of alert and neutralizing them arsenic we speak."

PAKISTAN-INDIA-KASHMIR-UNREST Security unit cordon disconnected a thoroughfare adjacent a tract aft an alleged drone was changeable down successful Lahore connected May 8, 2025. MURTAZ ALI/AFP/Getty

Chaudhry said Pakistan's equipped forces managed to "neutralize" 12 drones astatine assorted locations, including Lahore, Gujrawala, Chakwal, Rawalpindi, and 1 adjacent Karachi.

"One drone, however, managed to prosecute a subject people adjacent Lahore partially," Chaudhry said, adding that it had killed 1 civilian and wounded 4 Pakistani soldiers.

India did not instantly respond to Pakistan's assertion astir the drone attack, which came a time aft India deed 9 locations wrong Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir with missiles. Pakistan said astatine slightest 26 radical were killed successful that rocket attack, which it labeled an "act of war," and that 5 others died successful ongoing cross-border subject clashes on the Line of Control that divides Indian and Pakistani-administered portions of Kashmir.

India launched uncommon nationalist preparedness exercises connected Wednesday, bracing for Pakistani retaliation to the rocket attack, which the nation's leaders person said they volition instrumentality astatine a clip and successful a mode of their choosing. 

The existent situation was sparked by a massacre of tourists past period successful Indian-administered Kashmir. Indian officials rapidly accused Pakistan of backing the terrorists who carried retired the attack, but Pakistan has denied immoderate involvement.

The 2 nations person fought 2 wars and countless skirmishes implicit Kashmir, a picturesque mountainous portion that some assertion successful its entirety.

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