India said it had attacked nine “terrorist infrastructure” sites, some of which linked to attacks by extremists who killed 25 Hindu tourists and one local tourist last month.
Pakistan has killed at least 31 of its civilians and 46 injured, a military spokesperson said India “littles Inferno in the region.” This included deaths from strikes and border artillery fire.
Islamabad said, “Once upon a pledge to respond in a place and way, in order to choose to revenge the loss of the lives of innocent Pakistanis and the blatant violation of their sovereignty, he rejected the allegations of India, which had a terrorist camp on its territory.
“We’ll now have to pay for the blatant mistake India made last night,” Pakistan Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif said in a broadcast speech on the national broadcaster’s PTV. “Perhaps they thought we would retreat, but they forgot… this is a land of brave people.”
Pakistan’s defense minister, Kawaja Muhammad Asif, told broadcaster Geo News that Islamabad will only attack Indian military targets, not civilians, in retaliation.
The Indian strike included Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous state, for the first time since the last full-scale war between old enemies more than half a century ago.