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- Pakistan’s military says it intercepted Indian missile attacks on three airbases as tensions between the nuclear powers continue to escalate.
- Blasts rang out across Indian-administered Kashmir and the city of Amritsar in neighbouring Punjab state, with the Indian military saying they were shooting down drones, while heavy cross-border artillery exchanges have also resumed.
- Pakistan’s military says there will be “no de-escalation” with India until it has responded fully to India’s strikes on Wednesday.
- Pakistan’s information minister says his country has engaged only in a “defensive response so far” to India’s attacks on his country, as Pakistan’s military said India launched attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least two civilians.
- At least 48 people have been reported killed so far – 32 of them in Pakistan – since India launched missiles on Wednesday that it said targeted “terrorist camps” in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistan retaliated with a barrage of artillery strikes.
- The clashes follow escalating tension between the two nuclear-armed countries since a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, which India blamed on Pakistan. Pakistan has denied any involvement.
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