India reports strikes on military bases, Pakistan denies any role

India has accused Pakistan of attacking 3 of its subject bases with drones and missiles, a assertion which has been denied by Islamabad.

The Indian Army said it had foiled Pakistan's attempts to onslaught its bases in Jammu and Udhampur, successful Indian-administered Kashmir, and Pathankot, successful India's Punjab state.

Blasts were reported connected Thursday evening successful Jammu metropolis successful Indian-administered Kashmir arsenic the portion went into a blackout.

Pakistan's defence curate told the BBC they were not down the attack.

"We contradict it, we person not mounted thing truthful far," Khawaja Asif told the BBC, adding: "We volition not onslaught and past deny".

Earlier connected Thursday, India said it had struck Pakistan's aerial defences and "neutralised" Islamabad's attempts to deed subject targets successful India connected Wednesday night.

Pakistan called that enactment different "act of aggression", pursuing Indian rocket strikes connected Wednesday connected targets successful Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

India's strikes connected Wednesday sparked a chorus of calls for de-escalation from the planetary assemblage with the UN and satellite leaders calling for calm.

The attacks and incidents of shelling on the borderline person fanned fears of wider struggle erupting betwixt the nuclear-armed states.

It is being viewed arsenic the worst confrontation betwixt the 2 countries successful much than 2 decades.

India said it deed 9 "terrorist infrastructure" sites connected Wednesday successful retaliation for a militant onslaught connected tourists successful Indian-administered Kashmir past month.

Pakistan has powerfully denied Indian claims that it backed the militants who killed 26 civilians successful the mountainous municipality of Pahalgam.

It was the bloodiest onslaught connected civilians successful the portion for years, sending tensions soaring. Most of the victims were Indian tourists.

Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a decades-long insurgency against Indian regularisation which has claimed thousands of lives.

Kashmir has been a flashpoint betwixt the countries since they became autarkic aft British India was partitioned successful 1947. Both assertion Kashmir and person fought 2 wars implicit it.

There were calls for restraint from astir the satellite aft India launched "Operation Sindoor" aboriginal connected Wednesday.

But connected Thursday some sides accused each different of further subject action.

Pakistan's subject spokesperson said drones sent by India had been engaged successful aggregate locations.

"Last night, India showed different enactment of aggression by sending drones to aggregate locations," Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said. "These locations are Lahore, Gujranwala, Chakwal, Rawalpindi, Attock, Bahawalpur, Miano, Chor and adjacent Karachi."

He said 1 civilian had been killed successful Sindh state and 4 troops injured successful Lahore.

The US consulate successful Lahore told its unit to shelter successful the building.

India said its latest enactment had been taken successful effect to Pakistan's attempts to "engage a fig of subject targets successful bluish and occidental India" overnight.

"It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence strategy astatine Lahore has been neutralised," a Defence Ministry connection said. Pakistan denied the claim.

There was nary autarkic confirmation of the 2 countries' versions of events.

Later successful the time India's overseas caput Vikram Misri told a quality league successful Delhi: "Our volition has not been to escalate matters, we are lone responding to the archetypal escalation."

Meanwhile, casualty numbers proceed to rise. Pakistan says 31 radical person been killed and 57 injured by Indian aerial strikes successful Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and firing on the Line of Control, since Wednesday morning.

India's service said the fig of radical killed by Pakistani firing successful the disputed Kashmir portion had risen to 16, including 3 women and 5 children.

India initially did not sanction immoderate radical it believed was down the onslaught successful Pahalgam but connected 7 May it accused the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant radical of carrying it out.

Indian constabulary person alleged that 2 of the attackers were Pakistani nationals, a assertion denied by Islamabad. It says it has thing to bash with the 22 April attacks.

In a late-night code connected Wednesday, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed to avenge those killed successful India's strikes.

He repeated Pakistan's assertion that it had changeable down 5 Indian combatant jets, saying that was a "crushing response". India has not commented connected that claim.

Following the reports of Thursday's explosions successful Jammu, section media cited Indian subject sources connected Thursday successful reporting that blasts crossed the Jammu portion were besides reported successful the towns of Akhnoor, Samba and Kathua.