India has fired attack drones to Pakistan, with one that injures four soldiers, said the Pakistani army, one day after missiles hit different locations and killed more than two dozen people.
Various drones were shot, said civil servants.
Hours after the first drone attacks, the Ministry of Defense of India said that it was aimed at air defense systems at different locations in Pakistan, but did not say whether the drones used.
The tensions between the nuclear arming neighbors have risen since shooters, 26 people, mainly Indian Hindu tourists, killed Kashmir in India-controlled Kashmir last month.
India accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, but Islamabad denies that.
A resident stands next to a house that is damaged by Pakistani artillery that in the Indian controlled Kashmir (Junaid Bhat/AP)
Indian strikes killed 31 citizens on Wednesday, including women and children, according to Pakistani officials.
More people were killed on both sides of the border in heavy fire changes that followed. It was their worst confrontation since 2019, when the rivals came close to the war.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has sworn to reject the dead in the strikes, so that the fear was called that the two countries could be on their way to another full conflict.
The relationship between India and Pakistan is formed by conflicts and mutual suspicion, especially in their competing claims about the Himalayas region of Kashmir. They have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, which is divided between them and is claimed by both as a whole.
India fired several Harop drones made by Israel in Pakistan at night and until Thursday afternoon, according to the spokesperson for the army Lt Gen Gen Ahmad Sharif.
Pakistani troops shot 25, he said. A burger was killed and another injured when debris of a down drone fell in the province of Sindh.
One drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and injured four soldiers, and another fell into the Garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, according to Lt Gen Sharif.
“They neutralize the forces as we speak,” he said early on Thursday afternoon at the Pakistan television run by the state.
Draws surrounded a building that was hit by an Indian rocket attack, near Bahawalpur, a city in the Punjab province Pakistan (Asim Tanveer/AP)
The Harop -Drone, produced by Israel's IAI, is one of the many in the inventory of India, according to the Military Balance Report of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
According to IAI, the harop combines the possibilities of a drone and a rocket and can work on long series.
In Lahore, the local police officer Mohammad Rizwan said that a drone was brought down near Walton Airport, an airport in a residential area about 16 miles off the border with India that also contains military installations.
Local media reported that two extra drones were shot in other cities in the province of Punjab, of which Lahore is the capital.
In the District of Punjab van Chakwal, a drone fell against agricultural land. Authorities have protected the wreck and investigate the origin and purpose of the drone.
With tensions high, India evacuated thousands of people from villages near the highly militarized border of the two countries in Kashmir. Tens of thousands of people slept in hiding places at night, said civil servants and residents.
About 2,000 villagers also fled their houses in Pakistani-managed Kashmir.
Flights remained hung on more than two dozen airports in northern and western regions in India, according to travel advice from several airlines. Pakistan has suspended flights on four of his airports – Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and Sialkot – according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that 13 civilians were killed and 59 were injured the previous day during exchanges of fire over the de facto limit. An Indian soldier was also killed by shelling on Wednesday, according to the Indian army.
Pakistani officials said that six people were killed in the vicinity of the highly militarized border in exchanges of fire last day.
