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The Pakistani military said that a wave of short -range missiles to India started on Saturday when the tensions between the two nuclear neighbors escalated closer to a full war.
Pakistan said the operation “Bunyan-Un-Marsoos”-named after a Korean word that roughly started a “wall of lead”-as a reaction to rocket and drone attacks by India.
The Pakistani military said that there was a storage location for India’s excessive Brahmos rocket in Beas, the Udhampur airfield in the Indian subregion of Jammu and Kaschmir and an airfield in Patankot, also in Punjab.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed a meeting of the Pakistani National Command Agency, which is responsible for command and control of the nuclear arsenal, the military said on Saturday. The Pakistani airport authority said that the country’s airspace was closed until noon.
On Wednesday, India gave that “precision strikes” carried out the terrorist camps in Pakistan and the part of the controversial region of Kaschmir, who managed Pakistan.
The attack was India’s most extensive military attack on his neighbors for decades and was in response to the mass shooting of 26 Indians and a Nepalese citizen in Pahalgam, a tourist center in Indian, Kashmir, on April 22.
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