(7 May 2025)
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Musaffarabad, Pakistan – 7 May 2025
1. Various of people bringing coffin for funeral prayers
2. Various of funeral prayers
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Pir Mazher Saeed, Information Minister in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir:
“Our defense forces were alert, as the threat was there, and you know that we have a cunning enemy (referring to India), no enemy attacks by telling so, but thanks to God, the government was ready, our defense institutions were ready, so you see that the entire government is here, the prime minister (Pakistan-administered Kashmir prime minister ) himself is here, the entire government system is here, and is united to serve our nation.”
4. People offering prayers
5. Various of people chanting, UPSOUND (Urdu): “Long Live Pakistan" and “Long live Pakistan Army“
STORYLINE:
People attended a funeral for a Kashmiri man killed overnight in an airstrike in the Pakistan-administrated area of the disputed region.
After offering prayers at the funeral in Musaffarabad, Pakistan, people began chanting "long live Pakistan" in Urdu.
The information minister in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, Pir Mazher Saeed said the government was united and was alert to the attacks.
India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early Wednesday, as the overall death toll increased to 31 people in what Pakistan’s leader called an act of war.
India also claims there are casualties from Pakistani fire in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
India said it struck infrastructure used by militants linked to last month’s massacre of tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
At least seven people died in Indian-controlled Kashmir from artillery exchanges.
Pakistan said 26 people died in the missiles strikes and five from artillery exchange along the Line of Control that separates the two countries in Kashmir.
Pakistan claimed it shot down several Indian fighter jets in retaliation, as three planes came down onto villages in India-controlled Kashmir.
At least three civilians were also killed in the region by Pakistani shelling, the Indian army said in a statement.
Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbors over last month’s militant attack on tourists in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
AP video shot by Ishfaq Hussain
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