Pakistan charged India Friday with bringing the nuclear-armed neighbors “closer to a major conflict”, as the death toll from three days of missile, artillery and drone attacks passed 50. India responded with air strikes Wednesday on what it called “terrorist camps” in Pakistan, fuelling the worst clashes between the two in decades. India also accused Pakistani forces on Thursday of targeting three military stations — two in Kashmir and one in the neighbouring state of Punjab. “It is most unfortunate that India’s reckless conduct has brought the two nuclear-armed states closer to a major conflict,” Shafqat Ali Khan told a briefing in the capital, Islamabad. On Friday schools were closed on both sides of the Pakistan and Indian border in Kashmir and Punjab, affecting tens of millions of children.