India-Pakistan clash escalates with missile strikes on bases: ‘looks like a war here’

Pakistan said India fired missiles at three airbases inside the country on Saturday, but most of the missiles were intercepted and that retaliatory strikes on India were under way. It’s the latest escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre last month that India blames Pakistan for.

The Pakistani military said it used medium-range Fateh missiles to target an Indian missile storage facility and airbases in Pathankot and Udhampur.

Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir say they heard loud explosions at multiple places in the region, including the disputed region’s two big cities of Srinagar and Jammu, and the garrison town of Udhampur.

“Explosions that we are hearing today are different from the ones we heard last two nights during drone attacks,” said Sheesh Paul Vaid, the region’s former top police official and a resident of Jammu. “It looks like a war here.”

Pakistani army spokesman, Lieutenant General Ahmad Sharif, said in a televised address that the country’s air force assets were safe following the Indian strikes. He added that some of the Indian missiles also hit India’s eastern Punjab.

“This is a provocation of the highest order,” Sharif said.