India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has chaired a high-level assembly with senior ministers from his cupboard.
In video launched by his workplace, Modi could be seen sitting alongside senior authorities figures together with Dwelling Affairs Minister Amit Shah, blacksprut Minister of Protection Rajnath Singh and Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval.
Modi has not spoken publicly since India launched strikes on neighboring Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday.
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A UN workforce has arrived at a web site in Pakistan-administered Kashmir that Islamabad says was hit by India’s strikes
From CNN stringer Immad Uddin in Muzaffarabad
A United Nations workforce has arrived at a web site in Pakistan-administered Kashmir that Islamabad says was hit by India’s strikes, a CNN stringer mentioned.
The CNN stringer on the web site reported seeing two white UN autos in town of Muzaffarabad, the place Pakistan mentioned a mosque was struck early Wednesday.
India claimed that no army websites had been focused in its strikes and that there had been no reviews of civilian casualties.
Pakistan, nevertheless, mentioned Wednesday’s strikes had harmed civilians and focused mosques throughout six places in its territory.
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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi postpones abroad journey
From CNN’s Vedika Sud and Rhea Mogul
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Might 3.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Might 3. Cash Sharma/AFP/Getty Photos/File
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has postponed a visit to go to to Croatia, The Netherlands and Norway, a senior authorities official advised CNN.
No official cause has been given for the delay, however the announcement comes hours after New Delhi launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Modi has not publicly spoken concerning the army motion on India’s neighbor.
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Residents of Pakistan-administered Kashmir pressured to flee their houses throughout Indian assaults
From CNN workers
A constructing in Muridke, Pakistan, that was broken by an Indian missile strike on Wednesday
A constructing in Muridke, Pakistan, that was broken by an Indian missile strike on Wednesday Ok.M. Chaudary/AP
Residents of Pakistan-administered Kashmir say they had been pressured to flee their houses and take shelter after India launched missile strikes on its neighbor.
“All of a sudden, the electrical energy went out. I assumed a transformer [had] burst, however later got here to know that Indian troops began shelling and firing at us,” Raja Shahid Bashir, a resident of Shawai in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, advised CNN.
“Shells landed near our residence and we got here out and took our livestock and belongings and took shelter,” mentioned Bashir.
One other resident, Shakeel Butt, advised CNN she needed to flee when shells began falling on the village. “A shell landed at a home near the mosque in which two folks had been injured. Shells additionally hit different homes in our space and we fled from our space to a safer place,” she mentioned.
India’s army mentioned it had struck 9 “terrorist camps” in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. No less than 26 civilians had been killed attributable to Indian military motion, a Pakistan army spokesperson mentioned, in accordance with the Reuters information company. Pakistan mentioned it retaliated by capturing down 5 Indian Air Pressure jets and a drone. India has not confirmed the fighter jet losses.
Zeeshan Akram, a resident of Muridke in Pakistan’s Punjab province, advised Reuters that drones appeared in the early hours of Wednesday and struck a mosque in town, destroying it.
“They hit the mosque instantly—destroyed its courtyard, the minister’s workplace in entrance of the mosque, and the roof. All the things was crushed. There was one particular person sitting on the roof, on obligation, he was martyred,” Akram advised Reuters.
“Concern and terror unfold in folks. Folks had gone out into the fields, in the open, similar to that,” Waqas Ahmed, one other resident of Muridke, advised Reuters.
