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Arab News
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
‘No terrorists here': School damaged in India strikes in Azad Kashmir reopens today
Muzaffarabad: The principal of a school adjacent to a mosque hit last week in an Indian strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir, said there were 'no terrorists' there contrary to New Delhi's claim, as the school prepared to reopen today, Tuesday. An Indian strike damaged the school and adjoining mosque on May 7 in Muzaffarabad, the main town in the part of the disputed Kashmir region administered by Pakistan. India hit Pakistan and Azad Kashmir with missiles that day and Pakistan, vowing retaliation, said it had shot down five Indian aircraft. Authorities confirmed three deaths and one injury following the overnight attack on Bilal mosque in Muzaffarabad, part of the worst escalation between the two nuclear-armed rivals in over two decades. India said it struck nine 'terrorist infrastructure' sites, some of them linked to an attack by militants that killed 25 Hindu tourists and one local in Indian-administered Kashmir last month. Islamabad has denied New Delhi's allegations it was involved. 'There are no terrorists here. This is a place of worship. People offer prayers here. Our children and all the people in the vicinity say five times prayers here,' said school principal of Al-Hadi Public School, Saima Maqsood, as cleaning work continued at the school. The schools will re-open today, Tuesday, according to a government notification. On Monday evening, Indian premier Narendra Modi said Pakistan would have to get rid of its 'terrorist infrastructure' if it wants to be 'saved,' his first comments on the military clashes with Pakistan since last week's deadly fighting between the two countries. The military operations chiefs of India and Pakistan spoke by phone on Monday, the Indian army said, as New Delhi reopened airports and shares rose in both countries following a ceasefire that paused days of intense fighting last week. 'The world knows what happened with India. Now, it will not dare attack again,' said Bilal mosque worshipper Roshan Mughal. 'The mosque, Allah's home, will be rebuilt. The sacrifices, the martyrdom of three people here at the mosque, and elsewhere ... have awakened Muslims and they have shown the world that Pakistan has the power to fight. Its armed forces are well prepared to defend the country.'
Arab News
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Army chief, PM to fund reconstruction of Pakistan mosque damaged by Indian strikes — minister
A man walks inside a mosque after it was hit by an Indian strike, in Muridke near Lahore, Pakistan, on May 7, 2025. (REUTERS/File) KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief General Asim Munir will personally finance the reconstruction of a mosque damaged by an Indian missile strike in the Muridke city of Punjab's Sheikhupura district, a Pakistani federal minister announced on Monday. India last week struck multiple Pakistani cities with missiles over an attack in the disputed Kashmir region. The strikes drew a 'precise, proportionate' response from Islamabad. However, four Indian missiles hit a mosque and an adjacent house within a complex in Muridke that New Delhi said belonged to a militant group, an allegation Pakistan has denied. On Monday, Food Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Gen Munir and other officials paid a visit to the Government Jamia Ummul Qura Mosque in the eastern Pakistani city. 'Announcing the government's decision to reconstruct the mosque, he (Hussain) stated that the PM and the army chief have pledged to rebuild the mosque at their personal expense,' the Pakistani Ministry of National Food Security and Research said in a statement. The Indian strikes had killed three Pakistani civilians and injured two others, according to Pakistani media. During Monday's visit, Pakistani officials met with the injured civilians and inquired about their well-being, according to the national food ministry. They announced top-tier medical care along with support for the families of the martyrs. The visit came as director generals of military operations from India and Pakistan held talks, Reuters reported, following a US-brokered ceasefire that stopped four days of intense drone, missile and artillery fire. Last week's hostilities were triggered by a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir's Pahalgam resort town that killed 26 tourists on April 22. New Delhi blamed Pakistan for the assault, Islamabad denied it. Kashmir has remained a flashpoint between India and Pakistan since their independence in 1947, with both claiming the region in full but ruling it in part. Both countries have fought two of their three wars over the region.
Al Arabiya
10-05-2025
- General
- Al Arabiya
Pakistan would consider de-escalation if India doesn't carry out further attacks: FM
A damaged portion of an administration block at the Government Health and Education complex, after it was hit by an Indian strike, in Muridke near Lahore, Pakistan, on May 7, 2025. (Reuters)
The Herald
07-05-2025
- Politics
- The Herald
India strikes Pakistan over tourist killings, Pakistan says Indian jets downed
In Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, damage from the Indian strike was visible at sunrise. Security forces surrounded a small mosque in a hill-side residential neighbourhood which had been hit, with its minaret collapsed. All schools in Pakistani Kashmir, the national capital Islamabad, and much of Indian Kashmir and the populous Pakistani province of Punjab were ordered closed on Wednesday in the aftermath of the strikes. Imran Shaheen, a district official in Pakistani Kashmir, said two mortars landed on a house in the town of Forward Kahuta, killing two men and injuring several women and children. In another village, a resident had been killed in firing, Shaheen said. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was responding to the Indian attacks but did not provide details. Pakistan's populous province of Punjab declared an emergency, its chief minister said, and hospitals and emergency services were on high alert. A Pakistani military spokesperson told broadcaster Geo two mosques were among the sites hit by India. The Pakistani defence minister told Geo all the sites were civilian and not militant camps. He said India's claim of targeting "camps of terrorists is false". After India's strikes, the Indian army said in a post on X on Wednesday: "Justice is served." A spokesperson for the Indian embassy in Washington told Reuters evidence pointed "towards the clear involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in this terror attack", referring to the April tourist killings.
