There is no prospect of any easing of the conflict between India and Pakistan. According to the Indian military, Pakistani forces launched several drone attacks along India's western border on Friday morning. The attacks were effectively repulsed, the Indian military said.
The Pakistani military denied this. The Foreign Ministry categorically rejected such baseless and irresponsible allegations made by the Indian media. Pakistan's Information Minister Ataullah Tarar also said that Pakistan has not yet attacked any target in the Indian part of Kashmir or across the international border.
The old enemies have been clashing since India struck several locations in Pakistan, which it said were "terrorist camps", in retaliation for a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.
Pakistan denied being involved in the attack, but the two countries have exchanged cross-border fire and shelling and sent drones and missiles into each other's airspace since then, with nearly four dozen people killed in the violence.
The fighting is the deadliest since a limited conflict between the two countries in the Kargil region of Kashmir in 1999. India targeting cities in Pakistan's mainland provinces outside Pakistani Kashmir is the first since their full-scale war in 1971.
The Indian army said Pakistani troops had resorted to "multiple ceasefire violations" along the countries' de facto border in Kashmir, a region that is divided between them but fully claimed by both.
Islamabad had previously denied attacking the city of Pathankot in India's Punjab state, Srinagar in the Kashmir valley and Rajasthan.
International concern is growing about a further escalation of tensions between the two nuclear powers.
The US has been extremely cautious about this conflict. According to US Vice President JD Vance, a possible war between India and Pakistan is none of the US's business. In an interview on Fox News, he called on both countries to reduce tensions, but added that the US cannot control its nuclear-armed Asian neighbors.
"What we can do is try to encourage these people to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not going to get involved in a war that is fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it," he added. (A2 Televizion)
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