• Pakistan is targeted at Indian bases in the midst of escalating conflict.
• Pakistan says reaction to missile attacks from Indian jets.
• The United States is calling on both countries for diplomatic de-scaling.

Pakistan said it called a meeting on Saturday in the top body that oversees its nuclear arsenal after launching a military operation against India early in the morning, targeting several bases, including a missile storage site in northern India.

The Indian army claimed after the attacks that Pakistan continued his “obvious escalation” with drone strikes and used other ammunition along the western border of India and that its “enemy design” would be averted.

Diplomatic calls for shell, including the United States, intensified as the nuclear armed neighbors increased their worst matches in three decades.

Pakistan said that before its offensive had fired missiles at three air bases, including a close to the capital, Islamabad, but Pakistani air defense captured most of them.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said he had convened a meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA), a supreme body of civilian and military officials overseeing decisions on its nuclear arsenal.

However, Defense Minister Asif told Pakinomist News that the meeting with NCA did not call.

Analysts and diplomats have long feared that conflicts between Arch-rivals could escalate to the use of nuclear weapons in one of the world’s most dangerous and most populated atomic flashpoint regions.

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said the escalation was a test for the international community. “We would hate to see that (nuclear) threshold was broken.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir on Friday morning, according to the US Ministry of State.

“He continued to encourage both parties to find ways to step down and offered us help to start constructive conversations to avoid future conflicts,” spokesman for the Tammy Bruce state department said.

Locked in a long -term dispute over Kashmir, the two countries have been involved in daily clashes since Wednesday, when India launched strikes inside Pakistan about what it called “terror infrastructure”. Pakistan promised to retaliate.

The meeting of the National Command Authority signaled an alarming escalation, analysts said.

“It is a soft nuclear signal, but also well in line with Pakistan’s nuclear doctrine of first use and realistically reflects where we are on the escalation ladder – which is pretty high up, after several duels between both sides and also lacking precedent,” said Asfandyar Mir, senior fellow to South Asia at the Stimon Center.

An Indian army statement about X said that several armed drones were discovered flying across the holy city of Amritsar in India’s Punjab state and was destroyed by its defense units.

Pakistan’s planning minister said in a posted interview that it was not targeted at civilians and would only target placements that had been used for action against Pakistan.

The Indian Defense and Foreign Ministry would jointly inform the media at. 10:30 (0500GMT), said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an advisor to the media.

Pakistan’s Minister of Information said in a post on Social Media Side X that the military operation was named “Operation Bunyanun Marsoos”. The term is taken from the Qur’an and means a firm, unified structure.

“The Brahmos place of storage has been taken out in the ordinary area,” Pakistan’s military said in a message to journalists, adding that Pathankot -Flyvepladsen in India’s western Punjab State and Udsvampur Air Force Station in Indian Kashmir was also hit.

Sounds of explosions were reported in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), where sirens sounded, a Reuters Said witness.

“India through its aircraft launched air-to-surface missiles … Nur Khan Base, Mureed Base and Shorkot Base were made target,” Pakistan Military spokesman Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a late TV statement.

The Minister of IIOJK Omar Abdullah said in a statement that a local administration had been killed by shelling in Rajouri, near the control line sharing the disputed region.

One of the three air bases that Pakistan said was targeted by India is in the Garrison City of Rawal Pindi, just outside the capital, Islamabad. The other two are in Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab, bordering India.

The Pakistani military spokesman said that only a few missiles made it past air defense and that they did not hit any “air assets”, according to the first injury assessments.

India has said that its strikes on Wednesday, which started the latest clashes between the countries, were in return for a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir last month.

Pakistan denied India’s accusations that it was involved in the tourist attack. Since Wednesday, the two countries have exchanged cross -border fire and shelling and sent drones and missiles into each other’s airspace.

Much of the matches on Friday were in IIOJK and states bordering Pakistan. India said it shot down Pakistani drones.

The group of seven countries on Friday called on maximum restraint and called on the two countries to participate in direct dialogue. The United Kingdom’s High Commissioner for Pakistan, Jane Marriott, said in a statement on social media platform X that they were watching the trend closely.

Sounds of explosions were also heard in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and the northwestern city of Peshawar as the fighting threatened to spread.

At least 48 people have been killed since Wednesday, according to estimates on both sides of the border that have not been confirmed independently.