JAKARTA - India attacked nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistanarily on Wednesday with at least three deaths reported, while Pakistan said it was stepping up its response during the worst fighting in years erupted between the arch-foe.
The nuclear-armed neighbored state troops shoot each other and shoot each other at their borders in the disputedmen in at least three places, police and witnesses told Reuters.
Pakistan said India launched missiles in three places, but the Indian government's statement did not specify the nature of the attack.
India said it attacked the "terrorist infrastructure" where the attack was planned and directed.
Indian TV channels broadcast videos of explosions, fires, thick plumes of smoke in the night sky, and people taking refuge in several places in Pakistan and Pakistan's capislators. Reuters was unable to independently verify the footage.
Witnesses and a policeman at two locations on India'sten border said they heard intense loud explosions and artillery fire and jets in the air.
"Some time ago, India's armed forces launched an 'SINDOOR OPERATION', which attacks terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan's occupied Jammu and capkil to the site of the terrorist attack on India, which has been planned and directed," India said in a statement.
"Our actions are focused, measurable, and not escalative. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has shown considerable self-control in the selection of targets and execution methods," he said.
After the attack, the Indian army said in a post on X on Wednesday: "Justification is upheld."
After the attack, power went out in Muchafhabad, the capital of Pakistan'stensive capital, witnesses said.
Separately, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad responded to the Indian attack but gave no details.
A state of emergency was declared in Pakistan's densely populated province of Myanmar, its prime minister, and hospitals and emergency services on high alert.
A Pakistani military spokesman told broadcaster Geo, the location attacked by India including two mosques, adding at least three people were killed and 12 injured.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Geo that all locations targeted by India were civilians and not militant camps.
He said India fired missiles from its own airspace and India's claim to "terrorist camps is false".
India's attack comes amid rising tensions following an attack on Hindu tourists in India's mitigation last month. The attack on April 22 killed 26 people, the worst violence targeting civilians in India in nearly two decades.
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India blamed Pakistan for the violence last month that killed 26 people and promised to respond. Meanwhile, Pakistan denies it has anything to do with the killings, on the other hand saying it has intelligence information, India plans to attack.
The name of India's military operations this time, Sindoor, seems to refer to women who lost their partners in attacks on Hindu tourists in Palaligam last month.
Sindoor is the Hindi language for traditional red marks worn by married Hindu women on their foreheads that symbolize the protection and commitment of marriage. Women traditionally stop wearing them when they become widows.
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