Pakistan shoots down more than two dozen drones launched by India

India launched aggregate Israeli-made Harop drones targeting Pakistan overnight and into Thursday, wounding astatine slightest 4 soldiers, Pakistan service officials said. 

Pakistani forces downed 25 of the drones, Pakistan service spokesperson Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif told The Associated Press. Debris from a downed drone that fell into the Sindh state killed 1 civilian and injured another.

A drone damaged a subject tract adjacent the metropolis of Lahore, injuring 4 soldiers, and different went down successful Rawalpindi, which is adjacent the capital, Sharif said.

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"The equipped forces are neutralizing them arsenic we speak," Sharif connected the state-run Pakistan Television aboriginal connected Thursday afternoon, the outlet reported.

Both India and Pakistan are among the fistful of satellite powers that person atomic weapons, making tensions betwixt the 2 nations peculiarly troublesome connected the satellite stage.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that helium wants the struggle betwixt the 2 nations to "stop," noting, "if I tin bash thing to assistance … I volition beryllium there."

Some American lawmakers person besides weighed successful connected India and Pakistan.

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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said successful a Wednesday post on X, "I impulse Indian and Pakistani leaders to find a way towards de-escalation, and to guarantee accountability for those liable for the horrific April 22 violent onslaught successful Kashmir. For the involvement of guiltless civilians successful India and Pakistan—now is the clip to thin into diplomacy."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.