India and Pakistan trade fire and accusations after missile attack
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In Lahore, local police official Mohammad Rizwan said a drone was downed near Walton Airport, an airfield in a residential area about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the border with India that also contains military installations.
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India's Defense Ministry said its armed forces 'targeted air defense radars and systems' in several places in Pakistan, including Lahore.
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India, meanwhile, accused Pakistan of attempting 'to engage a number of military targets' with missiles and drones along the Line of Control that divides Kashmir and elsewhere along their border.
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'The debris of these attacks in now being recovered from a number of locations,' it said.
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Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar told parliament that so far Pakistan has not responded to India's missiles attacks, but there will be a response at an appropriate time.
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The two sides have exchanged heavy fire over the past day.
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Tarar, the Pakistani information minister, said that the country's armed forces have killed 40 to 50 Indian soldiers in the exchanges along the Line of Control.
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India has not commented on that claim. Earlier, the army said one Indian soldier was killed by shelling Wednesday.
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Tarar denied Indian accusations that Pakistan had fired missiles toward the Indian city of Amritsar, saying in fact an Indian drone fell in the city. Neither claim could be confirmed.
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India's Foreign Ministry has said that 16 civilians were killed Wednesday during exchanges of fire across the de facto border.
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Pakistani officials said six people have been killed near highly militarized frontier in exchanges of fire over the past day.
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Flights remained suspended at over two dozen airports across northern and western regions in India, according to travel advisories by multiple airlines. Pakistan has suspended flights at four of its airports — Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Sialkot _ according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
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