08 May , 12:29
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Pakistan shot down 12 Indian drones: escalation of tensions between nuclear powers reaches a new level. Pakistan's armed forces announced on Thursday the interception and destruction of a dozen drones launched from Indian territory. The incident occurred just a day after Indian strikes on targets in Pakistani territory, raising serious concerns about the possible escalation of the conflict into a full-scale military confrontation between the two nuclear powers in the region.
Pakistani armed forces spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry reported that India used Israeli Harop kamikaze drones to attack a number of strategic facilities, including the country's largest metropolitan areas - Karachi and Lahore. Pakistan's military is currently collecting and analyzing the debris of the downed drones.
"Indian drones continue to invade Pakistan's airspace... (India) will continue to pay dearly for this blatant aggression," Chaudhry emphasized.
Official representatives of the Indian Ministry of Defense have so far refrained from commenting on the incident.
Tensions between the countries sharply increased after the bloody terrorist attack on April 22 in the Jammu and Kashmir region, where militants coldly shot tourists on a mountain trail in the Baisaran valley. The brutal attack claimed 26 lives. Responsibility for the terrorist attack was claimed by the "Resistance Front" group from Afghanistan, presumably infiltrating through the Pakistani border.
The situation was further aggravated after India's decisive step to suspend the water treaty with Pakistan, which had been strictly observed for 65 years. Pakistani authorities have already characterized this move as the beginning of a "water war" between the two nuclear powers.
