India launches military strikes on Pakistan
New Delhi takes action after linking Islamabad to militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir
India said it had launched strikes on nine sites in Pakistan amid mounting tensions following a deadly militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours have been rising since last month when New Delhi linked Islamabad to an attack that killed 26 people.
While India’s defence ministry did not specify the locations of the “precision strikes” that took place early on Wednesday local time, it said they were “hitting terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
The ministry added that “no Pakistani military facilities have been targeted”, saying India’s attacks were “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature”. But Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif called India’s strikes an “act of war” and said on social media platform X that his country has “every right to give a robust response . . . and a strong response is indeed being given”.
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