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Pakistan's PM says it 'made reply' to Indian strikes after Pahalgam killings - latest [1]

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Date: 2025-05

What we know about India's strikes on Wednesday

Flora Drury

BBC News

Two weeks after a deadly militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, India has launched a series of strikes on sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

The Indian defence ministry said the strikes - named "Operation Sindoor" - targeted what it called "terrorist infrastructure" to hold "accountable" those responsible for the 22 April attack in Pahalgam, which left 25 Indians and one Nepali national dead.

But Pakistan, which has denied any involvement in that attack, described the strikes as "unprovoked", with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif saying the "heinous act of aggression will not go unpunished".

Sharif on Wednesday said the Pahalgam attack "wasn't related" to Pakistan, and that his country was "accused for the wrong" reasons.

Kashmir is a flashpoint for Pakistan and India with two wars having been fought over it.

While it is claimed in full by both countries, they each administer a part of the region since they were partitioned following independence from Britain in 1947.

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