At least 38 people were killed in the clashes between India and Pakistan in Kashmir on Wednesday ( May 7 ).
The two factors exchanged heavy artillery fire along their disputed northern frontier after India launched missile attacks against Pakistan.
Two days after New Delhi accused Islamabad of backing an assault on the Indian-run part of disputed Kashmir that left 26 people dead, the nuclear-armed neighborhood experienced the worst violence in years.
Pakistan has refuted the claim and demanded an impartial investigation into the murders.
How has Pakistan responded to the crisis, shown below.
“HEINOUS”
Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, described India’s cuts as a “heinous act of aggression” that” could not go unpunished.”
The nation’s National Security Committee ( NSC), which convened an urgent meeting under Sharif’s leadership and with Asim Munir, the country’s chief of army officers, pleaded with the world to “hold India accountable.”
In a statement released by the country’s prime minister’s office, the NSC calls on the international community to acknowledge the inertia of India’s flagrant illegal behavior and keep it responsible for its flagrant violations of international standards and laws.
The commission claimed that India “had sparked an fire in the region” and that Pakistan did listen to the strikes “at a moment, location, and manner of its choosing to kill the loss of innocent Muslim lives and blatant violation of its sovereignty.”
The council also vehemently refuted India’s claims that criminal camps are located on Muslim territory.
” RETALIATION HAS ALREADY STARTED”
However, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of starting the attacks, but he claimed that Islamabad had responded.
Asif told AFP,” The reprisal has previously started.” ” We won’t take long to resolve the dispute.”
Four children were among the 21 civilians killed in India’s attacks, according to Pakistan, and five were killed by frontier gunfire. According to India, Pakistani firing claimed the lives of at least 12 individuals.
Five Indian fighter jets have been broken across the border, according to a Pakistani military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, and three of India’s top military figures have reported domestic crashes.