Pakistan says it downed Indian jets, calls strikes ‘act of war’ amid escalating tensions

Pakistan has accused India of committing a “blatant act of war” and promised retaliation after New Delhi launched deadly missile attacks along their contested border in disputed Kashmir, in the worst eruption of violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades. In an address before Pakistan’s parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif denounced as “cowardly” the attack carried out by India, as he repeated Islamabad’s assertion it had nothing to do with the April 22 Pahalgam attack in the Indian-administered Kashmir region. He said Pakistan’s response to the attack, which included the downing of Indian fighter jets, proved that the country was prepared to “knock enemy planes off into the sea”. Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari reports. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #Pakistan #ShahbazSharif #India #IndiaPakistanTensions #Kashmir #IndiaAttacksPakistan #OperationSindoor #PakistaniArmy #IndianArmy