Pakistan has launched attacks on “multiple targets” across India, according to the media wing of Pakistan’s military.
State-run Pakistan Television has confirmed that retaliatory attacks are underway after India fired missiles at three air bases inside Pakistan. “Multiple locations in India are being targeted in the retaliatory attacks,” the state-run media reported.
Pakistan’s military said it used medium-range Fateh missiles to strike more than 25 military sites, including airbases and weapons depots in the Indian states of Gujarat, Punjab and Rajasthan, as well as locations in India-administered Kashmir.
It’s the latest escalation in a conflict triggered by a gun massacre on April 22 at a popular tourist site in Kashmir that left 26 civilians dead, mostly Hindu Indian tourists. New Delhi has blamed Pakistan for backing the assault, an accusation Islamabad rejects.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Command Authority, the body which takes security decisions, including those related to the country’s nuclear arsenal.
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