The site targeted by the deadly Indian missile attack is the mass of debris – and the locals feel trapped | World News

That is the mass of debris. Doors and windows -window jams of the Jamia Ummul Qurah mosque in the students exploded and there were two big holes in the sky.

Prayer books covered with debris on damaged bricks and there are bent metal hanging everywhere. On a thin table, you can see the remnants of what caused this destruction – the missile launched by India which killed three people.

Students are small town with around 250,000 people. About 20 miles from Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province, which borders with India. Local residents here feel trapped in the Indian military aiming line.

India believes this is the site of the basis of terror. Local residents insist that are the schools of schools, houses, hospitals and large seminary, with more than 3,000 students.

In recent years, the Pakistani government took control of this complex. But India has long believed it was home to Lashkar-e-taiba (Let)-a militant group designated as a terror organization by the United Nations and was accused of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

Hanzla Ammad, who lives nearby, said many people fled from the area a week before the strike, after India claimed Let was behind the attack that destroyed tourists on Kashmir kill 26 people.

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The explosion was reported near the airport in Kashmir

That, Hanzla’s claim, is only “Propaganda” and “India has not given a little evidence”.

As many are left behind, Hanzla wants to see India paying.

“It violates the international order and kills civilians, and Pakistan has the right to defend themselves now,” he told Sky News.

India has spent this week insisting it only targets “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan.

Islamabad flatly rejects it. It also denied the link to the attack on tourists on Kashmir That causes destruction that you can see in places like students.

The Pakistani government for decades has been accused of supporting and financing militants. But Hanzla said his country is now a “victim”.

Walking outside between the ruins of the building I met Usama Sarwar who was 26 years old. He quietly did not believe.

“This is a national dignity problem Pakistan. Our elderly, our soldiers, our government looks disturbed, “he said.

The war is not what he wants. “But at this time it seems like that might have happened.”

Both parties have a lot of losses. And there is a busy diplomacy in the last 48 hours, with Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia push hard to walk India and Pakistan to a safer space.

Tit-Fror-tat has lasted longer than expected. The more happens, the more space for calculating errors.

This may be a conflict for decades. But this time the whole world seems less involved. And there are no neighbors in this protracted conflict, it seems quite satisfied to leave. They might want to feel they can claim victory.

The question is, what is that like now?