India and Pakistan moved into open military conflict on Wednesday after New Delhi launched air strikes against its neighbour over last month’s deadly militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan claimed to have shot down five Indian military jets and a combat drone in response to the strike, which appeared to be India’s most extensive military attack on its neighbour in decades.
India said it had carried out “precision strikes” on “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and the part of the disputed region of Kashmir that Pakistan administers.
The defence ministry in New Delhi did not specify the locations of the strikes but said “no Pakistani military facilities have been targeted”, adding that its attacks were “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature”.
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