Pakistan shoots down more than two dozen drones launched by India

India launched aggregate Israeli-made Harop drones targeting Pakistan overnight and into Thursday, with 1 damaging a subject tract and wounding 4 soldiers, a Pakistani service spokesperson said. 

Pakistani forces downed 25 of the drones, Pakistan service spokesperson Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif told The Associated Press. Debris from a downed drone that fell into the Sindh state killed 1 civilian and injured another.

A drone damaged a subject tract adjacent the metropolis of Lahore, injuring 4 soldiers, and different went down successful Rawalpindi, which is adjacent the capital, Sharif said.

"The equipped forces are neutralizing them arsenic we speak," Sharif said connected the state-run Pakistan Television aboriginal connected Thursday afternoon, the outlet reported.

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Remnants are being inspected aft Indian drone onslaught connected Karachi, Pakistan connected May 8, 2025. (Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

India’s authorities said Thursday that overnight, "Pakistan attempted to prosecute a fig of subject targets successful Northern and Western India... utilizing drones and missiles."

"These were neutralized by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defense systems. The debris of these attacks is present being recovered from a fig of locations that beryllium the Pakistani attacks," it added.

"Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defense Radars and systems astatine a fig of locations successful Pakistan" this morning, it continued, noting that "it has been reliably learnt that an Air Defense strategy astatine Lahore has been neutralized."

"Pakistan has accrued the strength of its unprovoked firing crossed the Line of Control utilizing Mortars and dense calibre Artillery successful areas successful Kupwara, Baramulla, Uri, Poonch, Mendhar and Rajouri sectors successful Jammu and Kashmir," India’s authorities besides said. "Sixteen guiltless lives person been lost, including 3 women and 5 children, owed to Pakistani firing. Here too, India was compelled to respond to bring Mortar and Artillery occurrence from Pakistan to a halt." 

Both India and Pakistan are among the fistful of satellite powers that person atomic weapons, making tensions betwixt the 2 nations peculiarly troublesome connected the satellite stage.

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Late Thursday successful Indian-controlled Kashmir, residents of the metropolis of Jammu reported proceeding explosions and sirens.

Shesh Paul Vaid, the region’s erstwhile director-general of police, said determination was a implicit blackout successful Jammu pursuing large blasts. Vaid told The Associated Press that the Jammu Airport apt was nether onslaught and that immoderate of the 50 large explosions helium heard apt were due to the fact that "our defence strategy is astatine work."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio besides spoke Thursday to Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.

"The Secretary emphasized the request for contiguous de-escalation. He expressed U.S. enactment for nonstop dialog betwixt India and Pakistan and encouraged continued efforts to amended communications," according to the State Department. 

"The Secretary expressed sorrow for the reported nonaccomplishment of civilian lives successful the existent conflict. He reiterated his calls for Pakistan to instrumentality factual steps to extremity immoderate enactment for violent groups," it added.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that helium wants the struggle betwixt the 2 nations to "stop," noting, "if I tin bash thing to assistance … I volition beryllium there."

Some American lawmakers person besides weighed successful connected India and Pakistan.

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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said successful a Wednesday station connected X, "I impulse Indian and Pakistani leaders to find a way towards de-escalation, and to guarantee accountability for those liable for the horrific April 22 violent onslaught successful Kashmir. For the involvement of guiltless civilians successful India and Pakistan—now is the clip to thin into diplomacy."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.