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LAHORE, Pakistan — India fired attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, with one wounding four soldiers, the Pakistani military said, a day after missiles struck several locations and killed more than two dozen people.Several drones were shot down, officials said.Hours after the first drone attacks, India’s Defense Ministry said it targeted air defense systems in several locations in Pakistan, but did not say whether it used drones.Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors have soared since gunmen killed 26 people, mostly Indian Hindu tourists, in India-controlled Kashmir last month.
India accused Pakistan of being behind the assault.Islamabad denies that.Indian strikes on Wednesday killed 31 civilians, including women and children, according to Pakistani officials.
More people were killed on both sides of the border in heavy exchanges of fire that followed.It was their worst confrontation since 2019, when the rivals came close to war.Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to avenge the deaths in the strikes, raising fears that the two countries could be headed toward another all-out conflictThe relationship between India and Pakistan has been shaped by conflict and mutual suspicion, most notably in their competing claims over the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
They have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, which is split between them and claimed by both in its entirety.India fired several Israeli-made Harop drones at Pakistan overnight and into Thursday afternoon, according to army spokesman Lt.Gen.
Ahmad Sharif.Pakistani forces shot down 25, he said.A civilian was killed and another wounded when debris from a downed drone fell in Sindh province.One drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and wounded four soldiers, and another fell in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, according to Sharif.“The armed forces are neutralizing them as we speak,” Sharif said on the state-run Pakistan Television e...