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AT least 10 explosions have been heard near Srinagar International Airport in India-controlled Kashmir, according to Indian officials.

The blasts come just hours after blackouts were issued and sirens were heard in the entire region amid reports of drone attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.

Srinagar International Airport exterior.
10 Explosions were heard near Srinagar airport
Indian soldiers on guard in Srinagar.
Indian soldiers stand guard, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir,Credit: AP
Illustration of India and Pakistan leaders with military statistics and map highlighting Kashmir.

Indian defence sources said a new wave of drone attacks targeted Indian Kashmir for a second straight evening Friday, including the city of Jammu.

An Indian military official reported sightings of drones in Jammu and Samba located in Indian-administered Kashmir, as well as in Pathankot in the neighboring Punjab state.

“They are being engaged”.

The Chief Minister of Indian-run Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, mentioned on X that he could hear intermittent sounds of blasts, likely from heavy artillery, from his location in Jammu, and noted that there was a power blackout in the city.

There was no immediate comment from Pakistan, which dismissed Indian accusations that it had launched attacks on the same area on Thursday night.

Last night, India claimed some 300-400 drones were launched by Pakistan targeting several military installations across the region.

The attack was intended to check air defence systems and their response, according to intelligence officials.

In their latest press briefing, the Indian foreign ministry and military forces indicated that, according to preliminary reports, the drones originated from Turkey.

Pakistan has denied launching such attacks on Indian military installations.

In response to the drone attack, India launched a barrage of drone strikes targeting Pakistani military installations.

The retaliatory attack destroyed one air defence system, Indian Air Force officer Vyomika Singh told a media briefing.

Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had dismissed earlier Indian accusations of Pakistani attacks as “baseless and misleading” and said Pakistan had not carried out any “offensive actions”.

Meanwhile, India accused Pakistan of using civilian planes as “shields” during its air assault.

Wing Commander Vyomika Singh said: “Pakistan launched an unprovoked aerial assault, targeting Indian territory with drones and missiles.

“But Pakistan did not close its civilian airspace, so that commercial flights would become shields against any counterstrike.”

The old foes have been clashing since India struck several areas that it described as “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan on Wednesday in retaliation for a deadly terrorist attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.

India blames Pakistan for the attack — a charge Islamabad denies.

In response, India launched “Operation Sindoor” on Wednesday, blitzing nine targets across Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

Among them was the headquarters of terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), where India claims to have killed Abdul Rauf Azhar— a top JeM commander and the man linked to the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.

“India has killed the brutal terrorist assassin Abdul Rauf Azhar, whose psychopathic beheading of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 we all remember,” said former US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.

“Justice has been served.”

Pakistan has yet to confirm his death.

Both countries have exchanged cross-border fire and shelling and sent drones and missiles into each other’s airspace.

Around 48 people have been killed since Wednesday, according to casualty estimates on both sides of the border that have not been independently verified.

Sirens had blared for more than two hours earlier on Friday in in Amritsar, which houses the Golden Temple revered by Sikhs.

Schools and coaching centres were closed in the Bikaner region of India’s desert state of Rajasthan, and residents near the Pakistan border said they were asked to move further away and consider moving in with relatives or using accommodation arranged by the government.

Further south in Bhuj in Gujarat, authorities said tourist buses had been kept on standby in case they needed to evacuate people near the Pakistan border.

Following India military strike deep inside Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed revenge, saying: “I promise that we will take revenge for every drop of blood of these victims.”

The Pakistani Defence Minister also issued a chilling nuclear warning: “If they aggravate this then if a chance of war arises in which there is a sign of nuclear option being used on both sides, then the responsibility for that will be on India.”

India struck back diplomatically, branding Pakistan the “epicentre of global terrorism.”

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said: “I don’t need to remind the audience where bin Laden was found.”

US President Donald Trump said he is prepared to do “anything to help,” while UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urged “urgent dialogue” to avoid catastrophe.

Beijing, which supplies almost 80 per cent of Pakistan’s weapons, has so far stayed quiet, saying only that it is “not familiar with the situation.”

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