India Launches Missile Strikes Against Pakistan, President Trump Reacts
By Danielle
According to reports, India launched missiles across the border into parts of Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled territory early Wednesday.
India said it targeted infrastructure used by militants, responding to an attack in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir that killed 26 people.
“New Delhi blamed the attack on Pakistan-backed militants, an allegation Islamabad denies,” Newsweek noted.
Pakistan claimed the strikes killed a child and wounded two others.
From the Associated Press:
Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbors over last month’s militant attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. India has blamed Pakistan for backing the militant attack, which Islamabad has denied.
The missiles early Wednesday struck locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province, according to officials. One of them struck a mosque in the city of Bahawalpur in Punjab, where a child was killed and a woman and man were injured, one official said.
The officials said Pakistan had launched retaliatory strikes, without providing any details. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
State-run Pakistan Television, quoting security officials, said Pakistan’s air force shot down two Indian jets but provided no additional details.
Pakistani army spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif told ARY News that the missiles were launched from within Indian territory and that no Indian aircraft had entered Pakistani airspace.
India’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that at least nine sites were targeted “where terrorist attacks against India have been planned.”