Explosions at Srinagar’s airport: a race for one-upmanship between two warring powers — the Indian-Pakistan border —

There were noises from areas with bases, and it looked like army sites were targeted. People who live around Srinagar’s airport said they were frightened by the blasts and booming sound of jets.

The explosions made my kids wake up and disrupted their sleep. Mohammed Yasin, a Srinagar resident, said he heard at least two explosions.

According to Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group for India, the two countries were at war even if they hadn’t already called themselves one.

Donthu said that it was a remorseless race for military one-upmanship with no apparent strategic end goals from either side. “With increasing civilian casualties on both sides, finding an exit or off-ramp is going to be challenging.”

The Indian army said late Friday that drones were sighted in 26 locations across many areas in Indian states bordering Pakistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir, including Srinagar. The drones were tracked and engaged.

Security of Pakistan’s air force after a G7 attack on the Jammuz-e-Kaluzaleh site in Pakistan

People in major cities in Pakistan were seen chanting slogans for the armed forces after the country’s airports were shut for all flight operations.

The Group of Seven nations, or G7, urged “maximum restraint” from India and Pakistan. It warned Friday that further military escalation posed a serious threat to regional stability.

According to a Pakistan military spokesman, the Indian missiles hit at least five air bases including the one in Rawalpindi near the capital, which is a garrison city.

Pakistan’s military had said it used medium-range Fateh missiles to hit an Indian missile storage facility and air bases in the cities of Pathankot and Udhampur. The army spokesman said the country’s air force assets are safe.

Army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, said Pakistan’s air force assets were safe following the Indian strikes, adding that some of the Indian missiles also hit India’s eastern Punjab.

State-run Pakistan Television reported that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has convened a meeting of the National Command Authority, the body responsible for overseeing the country’s missile program and other strategic assets.

There have been reports of increased tensions between the rivals after an attack on a tourist site in India-controlled Kashmir left 26 people dead. New Delhi has blamed Pakistan for backing the assault, an accusation Islamabad rejects.

A truce between India and the Kashmir war: “What the hell happened to the ceasefire?,” Srinagar and Jammu

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Rubio continued to urge both parties to “find ways to deescalate and offered U.S. assistance in starting constructive talks” in order to avoid future conflicts.

The call for calm came ahead of Saturday’s Indian missile strikes, which targeted Nur Khan air base in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, Murid air base in Chakwal city and Rafiqui air base in the Jhang district of eastern Punjab province, according to Pakistan’s military spokesman.

There was no media access to the air base, which is a densely populated city, where residents have not heard or seen the aftermath of the strike.

However, hours after the agreement, explosions heard by residents in Srinagar and Jammu in Indian-controlled Kashmir were followed by blackouts in the two cities. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Shesh Paul Vaid, the region’s former top police official and a Jammu resident, said that the current detonations are different from those heard in the last two nights. It looks like a war here.

Omar Abdullah, the region’s top elected official, said in a post on social media: “What the hell just happened to the ceasefire? There were blasts heard across Srinagar.

India’s military held a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday saying that Pakistan had targeted health facilities and schools in Kashmir.

After days of tense relations, the truce was hailed by Pakistan as a moment of national pride and relief.

India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire Saturday after the first nuclear-armed confrontation in decades: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Prime Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he and Vice President JD Vance had engaged with senior officials from both countries over the past 48 hours. They included Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sharif, India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir.

Conflict between India and Pakistan is not a new thing since they gained independence in 1947.

Misri said the head of military operations from the two countries spoke on Saturday and said that they would stop all firing and military action in the air and sea.

ISLAMABAD — India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire Saturday after U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades but accused each other of violating the deal just hours later.

“We believe that any issues in the smooth implementation of the ceasefire should be addressed through communication at appropriate levels,” the ministry said.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry blamed Indian forces for the ceasefire violation. The ministry said Pakistan remains committed to the agreement and its forces were handling the situation with responsibility and restraint.

Indian Foreign Secretary Misri accused Pakistan of violating the agreement by not respecting it.

People on both sides of the Line of Control, which divides the territory, reported heavy exchanges of fire between Indian and Pakistani troops. By Sunday, the fighting had stopped.

As part of the ceasefire, the nuclear-armed neighbors agreed to immediately stop all firing and military action on land, in the air and at sea. They accused each other of repeatedly violating the deal just hours later.

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Since the deal was announced, neither India nor Pakistan has commented on the matter. Nor has India acknowledged anyone beyond its military contact with the Pakistanis.

The Line of Control is marked with razor wire coils, watchtowers and Bunkers, which are snaked across foothills populated with villages and forests.