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Pakistani forces said they launched a wave of short-range missiles into India early on Saturday as tensions between their two nuclear-armed neighbors approached a full-scale war.
Pakistan said it has launched Operation Banyan an Marsos, named after Koran’s words, roughly meaning “lead wall.” in response to India’s missile and drone attacks.
The Pakistani military said it targeted Indian ultrasonic Brahmos missile storage sites in Beads, Udhanpur Air in India’s sub-regions in Jammu and Kashmir and the airfield storage sites in Punjab’s Patankot airfields.
Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif called for a meeting of Pakistan’s national command authorities, responsible for command and control of nuclear weapons, the military said on Saturday. Pakistani airport authorities said the country’s airspace will be closed until noon.
On Wednesday, India said it had carried out a “precision strike” over its terrorist camp in Pakistan and what it said was part of a Pakistan-controlled Kashmir conflict zone.
The attack was India’s most extensive military attack on neighbors in decades, responding to the mass shooting of 26 Indians and Nepali citizens in Pahargam, a tourist in Kashmir, managed by India.
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