Pakistan accuses India of targeting three missile-carrying military bases as tensions escalate

Pakistan threatened further retaliation after accusing India of targeting its three military bases and launched missiles from fighter planes, a major escalation of the clashes between two nuclear-weapon neighbors.

Pakistan military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said on a live broadcast on state television earlier on Saturday: “India attacked the missile with its naked aggressiveness.

Chaudhry said India has launched six ballistic missiles from the Punjab border. He said most people were intercepted by Pakistan's air defense. He warned India: “Now, you are just waiting for our response.”

The military-owned Nur Khan Air Force Base in Rawalpindi is about 10 kilometers away from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. After the strike, Pakistan closed the space.

Video shared on social media showed flames and smoke from the night sky rolling into the night sky, and voices could be heard saying, “As the fighter plane flew over, an attack was launched on Nur Khan Base.”

India's attempts toward Rawalpindi and other major military bases are the biggest escalation to date against Pakistan, bringing the two countries the closest to war in decades.

On Wednesday, Indian missiles hit nine Pakistan sites, killing 31 people. In turn, the strikes are India's reaction to the Kashmir attacks managed in India late last month, where militants killed 25 Hindu tourists and a guide who allegedly was involved in Pakistan.

India's attack on Pakistan took place hours after a few hours, Indians said Pakistan carried out another drone attack in Punjab and Indian-managed Kashmir state on Friday night. An explosion was heard near the airport in Srinagar, the main city of Kashmir, which is managed by India.

Indian troops said they intercepted drones to a large extent, but police said three people in the Ferozepur district of Punjab (Punjab, which borders Pakistan) were injured in the drone attack, with one of them in critical condition.

Earlier in the day, India accused Pakistan of launching up to 400 drone attacks in cities, military bases and places of worship on Thursday.

India claims to have intercepted hundreds of Pakistani drones and said it is Kashmir managed by India, as well as Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. It said on Thursday night, the first drone wave hit a wave near dawn on Friday.

India said it has launched four drone strikes in Pakistan, directly targeting military defense infrastructure.

In a press conference on Friday, the Indian military claimed that Pakistan’s drone attacks on Thursday were targeting Sikh places of worship, causing civilian harm, and that drones were targeting Christian churches.

“The target of the temple is Gurdwaras, and the monastery is a new low in Pakistan,” said Vikram Misri, India's Foreign Minister.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar denied the drone attack and said Pakistan did not take any “offensive action” outside India’s Kashmir or Pakistan’s border.

But a Pakistani security official said the drone strike on Thursday night was just for “heating” before Pakistan launched a completely escaped retaliatory attack. “When we strike back, everyone will know.”

Pakistan said it was an Indian attack a “act of war” and vowed to retaliate.

“We will not downgrade – the damage that India has done on our side, they should be hit,” Pakistan’s military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a media briefing. “We have been protecting ourselves so far, but they will get answers in our own timing.”

Pakistani troops provided new details of Wednesday's strike that claimed Pakistan deployed 100 aircraft to stop the strike of Indian aircraft that attacked from Indian airspace. It said the two sides had been in an air melee for an hour.

Pakistan claims it uses Chinese-made weapons and ground defense measures to help shoot down five Indian fighters. India has not responded to allegations that Pakistan shot down the plane, but in Kashmir and Punjab, which are managed by India, there are debris of at least three fighters, including at least one French Rafale aircraft.