Mumbai India-Vice President Vance said the current escalation between India and Pakistan “basically, our business is not relevant” as they hit it with drones and projectiles on Thursday and Friday evenings, reaching places that had not been targeted on either side for decades.

Vance spoke on Fox News Thursday night to answer a question about whether the Trump administration is concerned about the nuclear conflict. “We hope this matter can reduce escalation as soon as possible, adding: “However, we have no control over these countries. ”

“All we can do is try to encourage these people to lower a little bit, but we won’t be involved in a game that is fundamentally not about our business and has nothing to do with the ability of the United States to control it.”

Vance said the government was relegating through diplomatic channels and said he did not think that a nuclear war could be a situation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that he had spoken with India’s foreign minister and Pakistan’s prime minister.

"It may be both sides cheer up," said Praveen Donthi, an Indian analyst at International Crisis Group, of Vance's comments. He said the escalation between India and Pakistan has been "breaking new thresholds every day and we don't know when it will stop".

Arifa Noor, a columnist at Liberty News Agency, said dawn. During the previous escalation in 2019 and 1999, Washington was wholeheartedly reducing tensions.

The problem, she said, is, “I think even if the two countries have long relied on the United States to “intervene and speak out the two countries on the ledge”, I don’t think there are other capabilities to step into this vacuum.” Now, more than ever, she describes them as “two nuclear energy inherently in very unstable.”

She said Pakistan often seeks international intervention because it sees itself as a weak party in a decades-long crisis with India, which is largely in disputed areas in Kashmir. This Himalayan territory is distributed between the two countries and requires it all.

In late April, the gunmen killed 26 people, mainly Hindu tourists, in India. India insists that the gunman is the agent of the Pakistani army. Pakistan denies any connection to the attack.

In retaliation, India launched a missile strike in Pakistan overnight on Wednesday. Pakistan said it knocked down five Indian aircraft. Since then, drone strikes and projectiles have been carried out on both sides.

Donthi of the Crisis Group said Vance's comments suggest that Washington may sympathize with India's complaint, "It seems to conclude that making the drama play more is actually aid in the efforts to face the terrorist threat."

On Friday, at least two projectiles landed near military cars in the Pakistani city of Okara. Residents photographed a career on the ground, spinning in the fields while emitting smoke as the young man rushed out. The two residents described the incident independently to NPR, but both requested anonymity because they did not want to anger Pakistani authorities, which have not commented on the incident.

In a briefing on Friday, an Indian military officer said her country responded to what she called a "upgrade" of rivals by sending drones to four locations in Pakistan. Upgrades refer to Pakistani drones that have been targeting Indian towns overnight along the 760-mile border, from Jaisalmer, a desert town in northwest India to Poonch and Jammu, which owns the Himalayan peaks of Kashmir, India.

"There are dozens of fireballs in the sky." 43-year-old Gowher Ahmad's barrage overnight. Friday was quiet, but Ahmed said he was worried about spending the night.

Jaspreet Kaur from the Ayot border village said most of the 10,000 residents fled. "The rest of us are crowded in the basements of the three-story building," she said. Karamat Hussain, from another border village in Khari, said many residents cannot escape because they have to take care of the livestock like his elderly parents.

As the violence continues, India seems to be more attentive to critics. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a well-known Kashmir missionary who advocates independence from the territory, said on X that he would not allow Indian-owned Kashmir to participate in public Muslim prayers on Friday. He shared a video of his preaching last Friday and wrote: “I urge both countries to degrade sharply rather than go on this dangerous path, which will only lead to destruction.”

Social media network X also said it had received "executive orders" from the Indian government to block more than 8,000 accounts, including news organizations. Those who were blocked appeared to include Anuradha Bhasin, a well-known journalist based in Kashmir, and The Wire, an independent news website based in New Delhi. Indian authorities did not respond to requests for comment.

Bilal Kuchay contributed to the coverage in Srinagar, Kashmir, which is managed by India.