Tensions between India and Pakistan have not subsided since the attack in Indian cashmere on April 22. Strikes again broke out on the night of Friday 9 to Saturday 10 May, relates The world. This Saturday morning, India claims to have been the target of drone attacks. What Pakistan has confirmed, stressing that it has retaliated after other strikes.
An “adequate response”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said this Saturday that his army had “Avenged innocent deaths” with a “Adequate response” to India. He added that “Indian military installations” had been targeted. These had been used to launch attacks against Pakistan.
For his part, the Minister of Information of the Pakistani cashmere, Mazhar Saeed Shah, said that “11 people, including four women and a child” had been killed on her soil at night after “Intense Indian bombings, on more than five places in the control line”. He said “28 people were killed and 125 injured in Indian bombing or missile strikes” Since Wednesday. Pakistan airspace has also been closed and will be “Until Sunday at 9 am (Paris time)”announced this Saturday the Pakistani authority of aviation.
China calls “for peace and stability”
Faced with these military confrontations between Islamabad and New Delhi, China recently called the two countries in calm. “We call firmly, both India and Pakistan, to give priority to peace and stability, to remain calm, to show restraint and to find the way to political settlement by peaceful means, avoiding taking measures which would further raise tensions”said the Chinese Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.
To try to stop fighting, the United States proposed mediation on Friday to launch “Constructive discussions” Between India and Pakistan. After an exchange with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two countries, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, judged that “Both parties must identify methods to defuse and restore direct communication in order to avoid any calculation error.”
