Key Points
- India and Pakistan exchange fire across the line of control between Indian- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir after India launched Operation Sindoor.
- Pakistan says India’s missile attacks on Punjab province and Pakistan-administered Kashmir killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens. Indian officials say at least 10 have been killed and more wounded in Indian-administered Kashmir due to Pakistani fire.
A father and a son who live in a village near the Line of Control and who were injured in Pakistani shelling get treated in a hospital in Uri, Indian-administered Kashmir.
UK says ‘ready to support’ India, Pakistan amid tensions
The UK has offered to play a diplomatic role in the India-Pakistan conflict, calling both countries a “friend” and “partner”. “We stand ready to support both countries,” UK Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told BBC Radio. “Both have a huge interest in regional stability, in dialogue, in de-escalation and anything we can do to support that, we are here and willing to do.”
Pakistan’s National Security Committee says India ‘ignited an inferno’
Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) has said India “has once again ignited an inferno in the region” and called on the international community to recognise the gravity of its “unprovoked illegal actions and to hold it accountable for its blatant violations of international norms and laws.”
In a statement released after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the NSC said India’s “unjustified attacks deliberately targeted the civilian areas, on the false pretext of presence of imaginary terrorist camps,” and caused “grave danger to commercial airlines.”
“The responsibility for ensuing consequences shall lie squarely with India,” it said.
News Source: Aljazeera.com
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