Pakistan’s surrender of the captured indian pilot does not seem to have led to the de-escalation in the conflict that there was hope. Late on Saturday local time, resumed hostilities.
Pakistan’s military says two of its soldiers were killed in clashes with indian forces at the border, and regeringstjänstemannen Umar Azam says according to the news agency AP that a boy died and three other people were injured when indian soldiers fired ”toward the villagers without discernment”.
Indian police said that two children and their mother died in a pakistani mortar that destroyed the family’s home near the border, and seriously injured the children’s father. After a break of a few hours occurred since the new strife in which ” two civilians lost their lives, claims the pakistani military.
called for restraint to avoid an escalation of the conflict between the two arch-enemies, who have fought three wars against each other since they became independent in 1947 and has 130-150 nuclear warheads each, according to estimates from the Stockholm international peace research institute.
the foreign minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday that Russia has offered to mediate in the conflict, an offer Pakistan was ready to accept.
He also said that a top diplomat from saudi Arabia would soon visit both Pakistan and India. Even China will send a delegation to both countries in the week, according to the AP.
, both in the part controlled by India and in the which is controlled by Pakistan, have fled their homes to safer grounds.
– these battles are fought in our homes and in our fields. We are entirely in the hands of the soldiers, ” says Mohammed Conceived, accommodation in the Indienkontrollerade portion of Kashmir, AP.
Many families on the run on the pakistani side appeals to the international community to intervene to resolve the conflict.
” I don’t care if the indian pilot is gone or not, I don’t care about who released him and why. I just want to know if we will get peace again after he returned to India, ” says Mohammad Sadiq, a pakistani shop owner to the AP.
local time as the pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was handed back to India during the high-profile forms. Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan called the handover ”a fredsgest”, and the government also released a video where Varthaman to ”confess” that he was looking for a attackmål when he was shot down and says that the ”very professional” pakistani military saved him from the angry crowd at the impact site.
In India is, however, considered the statement to have been made under duress, which is also regeringstjänstmän claims in the newspaper Times of India.
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