Washington - Saba:
US President Donald Trump dubbed the Indian military operation against Pakistan on Wednesday as "disgraceful," expressing his hope that the fighting between the two sides would stop.
Trump said in a press statement from the White House, commenting on the Indian military operation: "It's disgraceful. We just learned about it as we entered the Oval Office."
Trump added that he hoped for a "very quick" end to the escalation between the two sides.
On Tuesday evening, India announced the launch of a military operation against Pakistan, dubbed "Operation Sindur," which it said aimed to "strike terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and the Pakistani state of Jammu and Kashmir, sites from which attacks against India were planned and directed," according to the Indian news agency ANI.
For his part, the director general of the Pakistani military's media wing, Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry, said, "Pakistan will respond to this [attack] at a time and place of its choosing. This provocation will not go unanswered. This was a shameful and cowardly attack carried out from within Indian airspace, and they were never allowed to enter Pakistani airspace."
The official PTV News channel, citing sources, reported that "the Pakistani Air Force shot down two Indian Rafale fighter jets after they violated Pakistani airspace." It added that "one of the Rafale jets was successfully shot down after violating Pakistani airspace near the Bahawalpur area."
The channel reported that the Indian attack resulted in the deaths of three people and the injury of 12 others, according to a preliminary toll.
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