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Pakistan and India fired missiles at each other’s airbases in the latest escalation between the neighbours.

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A swift, high-profile 25-minute military mission involving 24 precision strikes on terrorist sites across nine locations in Pakistan. This marked the launch of Operation Sindoor – India’s retaliation two weeks after 26 civilians were killed in Pahalgam.

India struck multiple targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack.

Modi government says the attacks under Operation Sindoor were restrained. But they went beyond anything seen since 1971.

Pakistan says India’s missile attacks on six locations killed at least eight people and wounded more than 35.

India carried out strikes early on Wednesday against Pakistan, two weeks after an attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam.