India and Pakistan are increasingly screwed in a spiral of tension and violence: Islamabad in the early hours of dawn launched missiles against Indian bases in Kashmir and Punjab after having accused Delhi of having launched six missiles in the night against three of its air bases. It is from Wednesday that the two countries, both equipped with nuclear weapons, exchange shots.
The new crisis was triggered a terrorist attack in the Indian Kashmir last month, which cost the life of 26 Indian tourists, and that Delhi attributed to the Pakistani terrorist organization Lashkar-e-taiba. The Indian government had promised a retaliation and on Wednesday launched air attacks on some sites in Pakistani territory. Since then along the control line, the border of de facto between the two enemy countries have followed fire clashes and attacks with missiles and drones. It is the worst crisis of the last decades and more than 50 civilians have been killed.
The appeal to moderation came from the international community and several countries have offered the parties to dialogue. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spoke on the phone with the approval, the Pakistani Ishaq Dar and the Indian Subrahmanyam Jaishankarand “he underlined that both parties must identify methods to reduce escalation and restore direct communication to avoid evaluation errors”.
Even China has urged “strongly” Delhi and Islamabad “to give priority to peace and stability, to maintain calm and moderation, to return to the path of political resolution through peaceful means and avoid taking actions that can further increase tensions”.
An appeal to an “immediate de-escalation” and to the “maximum moderation” has arrived from the G7. “A further military escalation represents a serious threat to regional stability,” said foreign ministers in a declaration.
The Indian army denounced “the palase escalation of Pakistan” which continues with “attacks of drones and other ammunition” along the western border, while witnesses reported strong explosions to Srinagar and several drones to Amritsar, in Punjab. For the Indian Foreign Minister Vikram Mistri «It was the actions of Pakistan who constituted provocation and escalation. In response, India defended himself and reacted responsible and measuredly ».
But from Islamabad, the country’s military spokesman, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, A few hours before the Pakistani operation, he accused India of having “attached with missiles” three aerial bases, underlining, however, that “most” was intercepted and “no air vehicle” was damaged.
One of the military structures aimed at Nur Khan in Rawalpindi, the city where the headquarters of the army is located, about 10 kilometers from the capital. In the Night Indian bombings, the authorities of the Pakistani Kashmir said, 11 civilians were killed. Hence, the retaliation of Islamabad to which the name of the ‘Bunyan Ul Marsos’ (lead wall) was given.
“A worthy answer was given to India and the blood of our innocent citizens was sold,” said Prime Minister Pakistani Shehbaz Sharif SOttoline, that Pakistan has shown “extreme moderation” in the face of Indian provocations.
For his part, the Minister of Defense Pakistani Khawaja Asif He wanted to throw water on the fire regarding the possibility of the use of atomic weapons after the news of a convening of the national command authority had circulated, the maximum organ that supervises the nuclear arsenal. “This thing you talked about (the nuclear option) is present, but let’s not speak: we should consider it a very remote possibility, we should not even discuss it in the immediate time,” he said in a TV interview. “Before arriving at that point, I think the tensions will drop.”