India launches missiles at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir

The Indian Armed Forces on Tuesday confirmed that it launched missiles at nine locations in Pakistan, and the Pakistan-occupied regions of Jammu and Kashmir, in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack last month.

The Kashmir region has been the subject of dispute since the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan and is mostly controlled by either party. A terrorist attack in Kashmir last month killed 26 people.

Indian defense officials said the latest attack was part of its "Operation Sindoor," which targeted places they believed terrorist attacks against India were plotted. No military facilities were targeted, per The Guardian.

"A little while ago, the Indian Armed Forces launched ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed," the armed forces said. "India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution."

India said that the attacks were not intended to escalate the conflict, but Pakistan said it would retaliate.

"Let me say it unequivocally: Pakistan will respond to this at a time and place of its own choosing," Pakistan's Lt. Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said "This heinous provocation will not go unanswered."

The precise number of fatalities and victims in the attack was not immediately clear, but Chaudhry said that at least one child has been killed along with two civilians, and at least 12 people have been seriously wounded. 

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