Top nuclear body summoned following retaliatory offensive on India

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Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif convened a meeting of the top institution in which Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were monitored. On Saturday morning, after launching a military operation against India early in the morning, after targeting several bases, including a missile storage site in northern India, was launched against India.

After the attacks, the Indian Army claimed that Pakistan was continuing its “clear increase” with drone strikes and was using other weapons along the western border of India, and its “enemy design” would be thwarted.

In the diplomatic demands of the De Skills by the United States, neighbors armed with nuclear weapons have promoted their worst war in three decades.

Pakistan said that before the invasion, India fired missiles at three airports, including the capital Islamabad, but Pakistani air defense stopped most of them.

Prime Minister Shahbaz’s office said that he had convened a meeting of the National Command Authority, a top organization of civil and military officials, which oversees its nuclear weapons decisions.

Analysts and diplomats have long feared that the use of nuclear weapons could increase conflicts between arc rivals, one of the world’s most dangerous and most populous nuclear flashpoint regions.

Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal said that the increase was a test for the international community. “We will hate to see that the (nuclear) threshold is being violated.”

According to the US State Department, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir on Friday morning.

“He requested the two sides to find ways to de -cut, and offered us help to start a constructive dialogue to avoid future conflicts,” said State Department spokesman Temi Bruce.

In a long -standing Kashmir dispute, the two countries have been engaged in daily clashes since Wednesday when India launched strikes inside Pakistan, which is called “terrorist infrastructure”. Pakistan vowed to retaliate.

Analysts said the National Command Authority meeting indicates a alarming increase.

“This is a soft nuclear signal, but according to the nuclear theory of Pakistan’s first use and realistic reflection of where we are on the staircase – which is after numerous hostility between the two sides, and even after the lack of pre -lack of hostility,” said Asfandyar Mir, a senior South Asian senior colleague at the Stemson Center.

A statement from the Indian Army on X says that several armed drones were seen flying over Holi City Amritsar in the Punjab state of India and was destroyed by its defense units.

Pakistan’s Minister of Planning said in a broadcast interview that he was not targeting civilians and would only target the places that were used to take action against Pakistan.

The Foreign Ministry told the media in a consultation that the Indian Defense and the Foreign Ministry would jointly shorten the media at 10:30 am (0500GMT).

Pakistan’s Information Minister said in a post on the social media site X that the military operation was named “Operation Bonynon Marsos”. This term is taken from the Qur’an and it means a strong, united structure.

Pakistan’s army said in a message to reporters, “The Brahmos storage site has been removed in the General Area Beas,” he added that the Pathanot Air Field in India’s West Punjab state and Udhapur Air Force Station in Indian Kashmir have also been targeted.

A Reuters witness said that the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) received the sound of blasts, where sirens raised their voices.

“India launched surface missiles through its aircraft,” said Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif Chaudri, Pakistan’s military spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif Chadri.

IIOJ’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said in a statement that a local official of the administration was killed by shelling in Rajouri, in which the contesting region was divided.

India was targeted by one of the three airports that Pakistan had targeted, outside the capital Islamabad, Garrison is in Rawalpindi. The other two are in the eastern province of Pakistan, which is connected to India.

According to preliminary loss reviews, a Pakistani military spokesman said that only a few missiles made it in the past by air defense, and they did not target any “aerial assets”, according to preliminary loss reviews.

India has said that its strikes on Wednesday, which launched the latest clashes between the countries, was taking retaliation last month in response to a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Jammu and Kashmir, which occupied Indian illegally.

Pakistan denied India’s allegations that it was involved in a tourist attack. Since Wednesday, the two countries have exchanged cross -border fire and shelling, and sent drones and missiles to each other’s airspace.

Most of the fighting on Friday was in the IIO and in the states adjacent to Pakistan. India said it shot a Pakistani drone.

The group of seven countries called for maximum patience on Friday and demanded the two countries to engage in direct dialogue. Britain’s High Commissioner for Pakistan, Jane Marriott, said in a statement on social media platform X that he was closely monitoring the progress.

The voices of the blasts were also heard in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and the northwestern city of Peshawar, as the fighting was threatened.

At least 48 people have been killed on Wednesday, according to estimates of accidents from both sides of the border, which have not been independently confirmed.