India launches strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan

India said it attacked "terrorist infrastructure" successful neighboring Pakistan connected Wednesday successful 2 of its occupied territories, sidesplitting astatine slightest 1 kid and wounding 2 different radical successful what Pakistan has called a "blatant enactment of war."

The Indian equipped forces launched "Operation Sindoor," which targeted violent infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from wherever violent attacks against India person been planned and directed, the Press Information Bureau of India said successful a statement. 

"Our actions person been focused, measured and non-escalatory successful nature," India’s Defense Ministry said successful a statement. "No Pakistan subject facilities person been targeted."

INDIA'S MODI GIVES ARMY FREEDOM TO ACT AS TENSIONS RISE WITH PAKISTAN AFTER DEADLY TERROR ATTACK

India launched strikes successful neighboring Pakistan connected Tuesday.  (Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images)

"India has demonstrated sizeable restraint successful enactment of targets and method of execution," the connection said. 

The missiles launched Wednesday struck locations successful Pakistan-administered Kashmir and successful the country's eastbound Punjab province. A mosque successful the metropolis of Bahawalpur was struck, sidesplitting a child, and a pistillate and antheral were injured, 1 Pakistani information authoritative said.

The onslaught occurred successful a distant vale lone accessible connected ft oregon by horse, and survivors claimed aft the onslaught that the gunmen had accused immoderate of the victims of supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

"In an unprovoked and blatant enactment of war, the Indian Air Force, portion remaining wrong Indian airspace, has violated Pakistan’s sovereignty utilizing standoff weapons, targeting civilian colonisation crossed planetary borderline successful Muridke and Bahawalpur, and crossed Line of Control successful Kotli and Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir," a spokesperson for Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said. "India’s enactment of aggression has resulted successful martyrdom of civilians, including women and children. This enactment of aggression has besides caused sedate menace to commercialized aerial traffic."

President Donald Trump said helium hoped the hostility betwixt the 2 nations subsides. 

"It's a shame. We conscionable heard astir it conscionable arsenic we were walking successful the doors of the Oval (Office)," helium said. "I conscionable heard astir it. I conjecture radical knew thing was going to hap based connected a small spot of the past. They've been warring for a agelong time. You know, they've been warring for many, galore decades and centuries, actually, if you truly deliberation astir it."

PAKISTAN FEARS INDIA INCURISON ‘IMMINENT’ AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS FOLLOWING TERROR ATTACK

Activists and supporters of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) instrumentality portion successful an anti-India protestation successful Muzaffarabad connected May 2, 2025, pursuing the Pakistan and India ongoing borderline tensions implicit Kashmir tourer attack. Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India person exchanged gunfire crossed their heavy militarised de facto borderline successful contested Kashmir since an April 22 onslaught that New Delhi blames connected Islamabad, a assertion it rejects. (Photo by Farooq Naeem / AFP) (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP via Getty Images) (Getty)

"I conscionable anticipation it ends precise quickly," helium said. 

The subject enactment comes amid tense relations betwixt the nuclear-armed states pursuing an April 22 onslaught that killed 26 radical successful the Indian-controlled information of Kashmir, a long-disputed territory that has been the root of hostility betwixt the 2 nations and is 1 of the astir militarized regions successful the world. 

Kashmir has been a disputed portion since some India and Pakistan gained their autonomy from Britain successful 1947. 

India has blamed Pakistan for backing the militant attack, which Islamabad has denied.

"In the aftermath of Pahalgam attack, the Indian enactment has erstwhile again utilized the bogey of coercion to beforehand its sham communicative of victimhood, jeopardizing determination bid and security," Pakistan said. "India’s reckless enactment has brought the 2 nuclear-armed states person to a large conflict."

Pakistani service spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, told ARY News that the missiles were launched Wednesday from wrong Indian territory and that nary Indian craft had entered Pakistani airspace.

Kashmiri villager women locomotion past the blown-up household location of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials allege was progressive successful the deadly onslaught connected tourists successful Pahalgam, astatine Monghama colony successful Tral, southbound of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, April 25, 2025.  (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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"This was a cowardly onslaught targeting guiltless civilians nether the screen of darkness," Sharif told the broadcaster.

Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips arsenic good arsenic The Associated Press contributed to this report.