07-05-2025
India fires missile barrage into Pakistan
Agencies
India has launched missiles at several locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-administred Kashmir, the government said, and Pakistan promised to respond to the attacks.
Dubbing it 'Operation Sindoor', India said it hit infrastructure 'from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed'.
'Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution,' the Indian statement said.
India has blamed Pakistan for an attack last month in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people.
The Pakistani government has denied any involvement and called for an 'neutral' investigation into what happened.
Pakistan reported at least three people died and 12 were injured, according to an initial assessment.
Pakistan said India launched missiles at three places, but an Indian government statement did not detail the nature of the strikes.
A Pakistani military spokesman told broadcaster Geo that Pakistan's response was under way, without giving details.
The spokesman said five places were hit including two mosques and reported three deaths and 12 people injured.
The spokesman for Pakistan's armed forces says the military will respond to India's strike 'at a time and place of its own choosing'.
'It will not go unanswered,' the spokesman said in the statement, carried by the Associated Press of Pakistan.
After the explosions, power was blacked out in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, witnesses said.
Witnesses and one police officer at two sites on the frontier in Indian Kashmir said they heard loud explosions and intense artillery shelling as well as jets in the air.
