#Pakistan says at least 26 #civilians killed in Indian strikes #India's army says it hit 9 sites in Pakistan & Pakistani #Kashmir Some were linked to last month's #Pahalgam attack Pakistan says it shot down 5 Indian fighter jets India says 10 civilians killed by cross border shelling […]

#India hit #Pakistan & Pakistani #Kashmir w/missiles on Wed & Pakistan said it had shot down 5 Indian aircraft & vowed to retaliate, in the worst fighting in >20yrs between the #nuclear-armed neighbours. India said it struck 9 "terrorist infrastructure" sites, some of them linked to an attack […]

#Pakistan said ≧26 people had been killed on Wed & that #India "had ignited an inferno in the region". #Islamabad pledged to respond "at a time, place & manner of its choosing to avenge the loss of innocent Pakistani lives & blatant violation of its #sovereignty". A govt security cmte said […]

The Indian strikes included targets in #Punjab, its first attacks on #Pakistan's most populous province since the last full-scale #war between the old enemies >50yrs ago, triggering fears of further hostilities in one of the world's most dangerous flashpoints. "The targets we had set were […]

Islamabad said none of the 6 locations targeted in #Pakistan were #militant camps. At least 26 #civilians were killed & 46 wounded, a Pakistan military spox said. #India TV channels showed videos of explosions, fire, large plumes of smoke in the night sky & people fleeing in several places in […]

In #Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani #Kashmir, damage from an Indian strike was visible at sunrise. Security forces surrounded a small mosque in a hill-side residential neighbourhood that had been hit, with its minaret collapsed. Later in the day, funerals were held for several of those […]

…Indian forces attacked facilities linked to #IslamistMilitant groups Jaish-e-Mohammed #JeM] & Lashkar-e-Taiba [[#LeT], 2 Indian military spox told a briefing in New Delhi, in what New Delhi called "Operation Sindoor". …#India had earlier said 2 of 3 suspects in the tourist attack were […]

The strikes in #Pakistan used precision weapons to target "#terrorist camps" that served as recruitment centres, launchpads & indoctrination centres & housed weapons & training facilities, #India military spox said. Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, the top ofcl in its external affairs […]

The neighbours also exchanged intense shelling & heavy gunfire across the "line of control", their de facto border in #Kashmir, police & witnesses told Reuters. The shelling killed 15 #civilians & wounded 43 in #India’s part of the region, police there said. At least 6 people were killed on […]

The scale of the strikes went far beyond New Delhi's response to previous attacks in #Kashmir it has blamed on #Pakistan, including in 2019 & 2016, which some analysts said meant the risk of escalation was higher. "Given the scale of the Indian strike, which was far greater than what we saw in […]