Local residents and media members inspected a building that was damaged by an Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Kashmir, which is controlled by Pakistan. MD Mughal/AP Closed subtitles
Earlier in decades, India's multiple goals in Pakistan reached its widest strike.
New Delhi described its operation as a response to a fatal attack on India on April 22, when gunmen killed at least 26 tourists and injured twelve people. India argues that the organization claiming responsibility is the agent of the Pakistani army. Pakistan denies any contact.
The Pakistani government called Wednesday's strike an "act of war." According to the Associated Press, citing the Pakistani military, 31 people were killed.
Indian troops said the strike was targeting "terrorist infrastructure", which took place overnight on Wednesday local time. In the statement It said the strike was "essentially concentrated, measured and non-propaganda" and had no targets for Pakistani military facilities. Later, Colonel Qureishi, India's Sofia colonel Said at the press conference “Therefore the location is chosen to avoid damage to civilian infrastructure and any loss of civilian lives.”
It seems to be the deadliest strike that has struck a mosque in the eastern part of Ahmed Fort in southern Pakistan. The strikes killed 14 people, including members of the family Masood Azhar, Person in charge Jaish-e-Mohammed, US designated terrorist organization There have been fatal attacks in India in the past.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on both countries to be restricted. "The world cannot afford the military confrontation between India and Pakistan," a statement said.
About half of India's strikes targeted the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir region. Both India and Pakistan manage part of Kashmir and personally demand the entire territory.
Pakistan said one goal is a hydropower dam on the river. The attack was particularly triggered as India suspended its decades-long water treaty with Pakistan last month, which separated six rivers, two rivers between two water-pressure countries. The suspension is part of a series of measures announced after the radical attacks in April. Pakistan's representative, United Nations Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, said earlier that the moratorium on the treaty posed a "existential threat to the Pakistani people".
In Kotli, a small town in Kashmir, Pakistan owned by Pakistan, the sound of multiple air strikes has scattered students in the popular late-night food center. A projectile attacked a house near the mosque and residents said the residents were affiliated with the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. According to local hospital medical officer Muhammad Nasrullah Khan, the strike killed a 19-year-old college student and her 12-year-old brother.
Debris of an aircraft are located in a mosque in Pampore, Kashmir, controlled by India on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Narrow Yasin/ap Closed subtitles
Other strikes Landing in Punjab, Pakistan, including a town called murike, Lahore is about 30 miles from the country's second largest city. Michael Kugelman, an expert in the region, said Foreign policy Introduction to South Asia. "What is also striking about these recent strikes is their size and intensity," he told NPR.
Indian authorities have held dozens of emergency drills nationwide to prepare their first responders to resolve the conflict. Volunteers hopped from the top of the building as the sirens went out and firecrackers erupted, apparently imitating artillery bombardment during an exercise in the Indian port city of Mumbai. Exercises in the Indian capital New Delhi temporarily cut parliament and several top government offices in the dark.
Following the strike, Pakistan's top senior official met in a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office and described India's actions as "unreasonable, cowardly and illegal acts of war". It said: "Pakistan reserves the right to respond in self-defense, once, place and manner to avenge the death of innocent Pakistan and to blatantly violate its sovereignty."
Pakistan's army seems to have stretched out. It is fighting against the Pakistani branch of the Taliban on the northwest border. It is also fighting the increasingly violent and bold rebellion in Balluchistan at the western provincial provincial level. Pakistan claims that those separatists are supported by Indian intelligence. The Pakistani military said separatist fighters hit a military vehicle with a simple landmine, killing seven soldiers, hours before India's strike. "The evil design of India and its agents operating on Pakistani soil will be defeated," the military statement said.
Praveen DonthiSenior analysts at the Indian & International Crisis Group said external parties should step in more forcefully to prevent military strikes. "This should have stopped before the upgrade," Donty said.
Donsi said that while India said it was not seeking escalation, “Pakistan agencies will be under tremendous pressure” because of the death toll and the widespread nature of the strikes. "I'm afraid the international community will not intervene, especially the United States, so we will only see the beginning of these escalating strikes."
Follow the strike, Secretary of State Marco Rubio He said he is closely monitoring the situation between India and Pakistan. ” The situation in X's statement. President Trump The attack was "shameful".
"I just hope it ends soon," he said.
Diaa Hadid report from Mumbai, India; Bilal Kuchay in Pampore, Kashmir managed in India; Betsy Joles in Lahore, Pakistan. Mumbai-based NPR producer Omkar Khandekar contributed the report.