Pakistan accuses India of targeting three missile-carrying military bases as tensions escalate

Pakistan threatened further retaliation after accusing India of targeting its three military bases and launched missiles from fighter planes, a major escalation of the clashes between two nuclear-weapon neighbors.

Pakistan military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said on a live broadcast on state television earlier on Saturday: “India attacked the missile with its naked aggressiveness.

Sharif said most Indian missiles were intercepted by Pakistan's air defense.

He warned India: “Now, you are just waiting for our response.”

The military-owned Nur Khan Air Force Base in Rawalpindi is about 10 kilometers away from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.

Video shared on social media showed flames and smoke from the night sky rolling into the night sky, and voices could be heard saying, “As the fighter plane flew over, an attack was launched on Nur Khan Base.”

The attack took place hours after Indians said Pakistan launched a wave of drone strikes against India, which claimed India had fired ballistic missiles on Indian territory.

“I want to give you a shocking news that India has fired six ballistic missiles from Adapur. One of one ballistic missiles hit by Adapur, other of the five missiles hit by Amritsar India's Punjab area,” a spokesman for the Pakistan Army said on an unfinished TV station on a local time broadcast at 1.50am.

Overnight, the explosion was reported in the Indian cities of Amritsar and in Kashmir, India.

Earlier in the day, India accused Pakistan of launching up to 400 drone attacks in cities, military bases and places of worship on Thursday.

India claims to have intercepted hundreds of Pakistani drones and said it is Kashmir managed by India, as well as Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. It said on Thursday night, the first drone wave hit a wave near dawn on Friday.

India said it has launched four drone strikes in Pakistan, directly targeting military defense infrastructure.

In a press conference on Friday, the Indian military claimed that Pakistan’s drone attacks on Thursday were targeting Sikh places of worship, causing civilian harm, and that drones were targeting Christian churches.

“The target of the temple is Gurdwaras, and the monastery is a new low in Pakistan,” said Vikram Misri, India's Foreign Minister.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar denied the drone attack, calling the Indian army’s statement “unfounded and misleading” and said Pakistan has not taken any “offensive action” outside India’s Kashmir or Pakistan’s border.

But a Pakistani security official said the drone strike on Thursday night was just for “heating” before Pakistan launched a completely escaped retaliatory attack. “When we strike back, everyone will know.”

Misri called Pakistan's denial of the drone attack “ironically” and “another example of its repetition”.

The allegations between India and Pakistan are another shocking confrontation between India and Pakistan as India attacked 31 people on Wednesday at nine locations in Pakistan. The strikes in turn are India's reaction to the Kashmir attacks managed in India late last month, with militants killing 25 Hindu tourists and guides.

Pakistan said it was an Indian attack a “act of war” and vowed to retaliate.

“We will not downgrade – the damage that India has done on our side, they should be hit,” Pakistan’s military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a media briefing. “We have been protecting ourselves so far, but they will get answers in our own timing.”

Pakistani troops provided new details of Wednesday's strike that claimed Pakistan deployed 100 aircraft to stop the strike of Indian aircraft that attacked from Indian airspace. It said the two sides had been in an air melee for an hour.

Pakistan claims it uses Chinese-made weapons and ground defense measures to help shoot down five Indian fighters. India has not responded to allegations that Pakistan shot down the plane, but in Kashmir and Punjab, which are managed by India, there are debris of at least three fighters, including at least one French Rafale aircraft.