{"id":71690,"date":"2025-05-10T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/09\/pakistan-accuses-india-targeting-three-military-bases-tensions-escalate"},"modified":"2025-05-10T17:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:05:32","slug":"pakistan-says-retaliatory-strikes-under-way-after-accusing-india-of-targeting-military-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71690","title":{"rendered":"India and Pakistan accuse each other of cross-border attacks on military bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims of missile attacks on targets deep inside both countries marks the steepest escalation in confrontation yet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/may\/10\/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-attacked-by-indian-missiles-live-updates\">Kashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India and Pakistan have accused each other of cross-border missile strikes against major military targets, the most significant escalation so far in the brewing conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, India accused Pakistan of launching strikes on dozens of airbases and military headquarters across north India, using long-range weapons, drones and fighter aircraft. The accusations came a few hours after Pakistan said India had fired six surface-to-air missiles targeting three of Pakistan\u2019s most important military bases early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/09\/pakistan-accuses-india-targeting-three-military-bases-tensions-escalate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims of missile attacks on targets deep inside both countries marks the steepest escalation in confrontation yetKashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updatesIndia and Pakistan have accused each other of cross-border missile strikes against major military targ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71714,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71690\/revisions\/71714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}