Operation Sindoor Highlights: Several airports in North India closed after strikes on Pakistan

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ISPR chief Lt Gen Chaudhry claimed that there were 8 dead and 35 injured in the strikes carried out by India under Operation Sindoor.

Pakistan violated the ceasefire agreement by firing artillery in Bhimber Gali in Poonch- Rajauri area after terror camps were hit in PoK and Punjab province of the neighbouring country. Indian Army is responding appropriately in a calibrated manner, it said in a statement

Sialkot, Chak Amru, Gulpur were also among places hit during India's Operation Sindoor.

Due to ongoing situation, several airports in parts of northern India, including Dharamshala, Leh, Jammu, Srinagar, and Amritsar, are closed, several airlines said in posts on X.

PM constantly monitoring operation Sindoor throughout the night, sources told Hindustan Times.

Indian embassy in the US said that no Pakistani civilian, economic or military targets have been hit; only known terror camps were targeted

Precision strike weapon systems of the three forces Indian Army, Navy and Air Force were used in the attacks including the loitering munitions.

The coordinates for the attacks on terrorist camps inside Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir were provided by the intelligence agencies. The attacks were carried out from Indian soil only. Read more about Operation Sindoor here.

Senior Indian officials spoke to their counterparts in US, UK, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Russia, sources sai.

The attacks on the multiple targets across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor was a joint operation by the Indian Army and Air Force using precision strike weapons, ANI reported citing sources.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has calld for maximum military restraint from India and Pakistan, his spokesperson said in a statement.

The Pakistan foreign ministry released a statement after India's strikes on terror camps in PoK and Pakistan, saying that they ‘strongly condemn’ New Delhi's actions

NSA Ajit Doval spoke to US secretary of State Marco Rubio after India's strike on terror camps in PoK and Pakistan.

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has spoken with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio “shortly after" India early Wednesday carried out missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and briefed him on the actions taken, the Indian Embassy in Washington DC said.

India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’ targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pak-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

A state of Emergency has been declared in Pakistan's Punjab province.

Pakistan Defence Minister Khwaja Asif said that Indian strikes did not hit any ‘militant camps’ and the civilian targets were hit.

Multiple loud explosions were heard near Muzzafarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Reuters reported.

Barmer District Magistrate, Tina Dabi, inspected the city earlier tonight ahead of tomorrow's mock drill.

In a sharp criticism of The Irish Times editorial on the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra, strongly condemned the publication for allegedly failing to condemn the violence.

Sharing a post on X, Mishra wrote, "Our reply to a malicious Irish Times editorial on the terrorist attack in Pahalgam. Instead of condemning terror, sympathising with innocent victims, it provides Cover Fire for the terrorists and their sponsors by charging PM Modi of rattling sabres and equating India with Pakistan."

During an event on Tuesday, PM Modi stated that India would not let its water go other countries, referencing the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty.

"Earlier, even the water which rightfully belonged to India was going outside the country. Now India's water will flow for the country's interest and will be useful for it," he said.

Randhir Jaiswal, official spokesperson of India's foreign ministry, responded to a statement issued by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in New York, calling it absurd that they refused to recognise Pakistan's involvement in the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

“The OIC statement, issued at the behest of Pakistan, is absurd in refusing to recognise the facts of the Pahalgam terrorist attack and its cross-border linkages. This is yet another attempt by Pakistan, a country that has long engaged in cross-border terrorism, to manipulate and misguide the OIC Group to issue a self-serving statement. We reject the OIC’s interference on matters that are internal to India,” the MEA spokesperson said.

The Indian Air Force will carry out exercises over desert sector and adjoining areas along the India-Pakistan border from tomorrow, 7th May in which all frontline aircraft including the Rafale, Mirage 2000 and Sukhoi-30s will participate, reported PTI citing officials.

Pahalgam attack news live updates: Syed Akbaruddin, India's former permanent representative to the UN, slammed the ongoing political tactics between Pakistan and China used on the international level.

“We need to understand multilateral organisations are playgrounds of geopolitics and therefore, countries will decide not on the merits of the case but in terms of their ties with respective countries. We know the ties between Pakistan and China,” he said, as quoted by ANI.

“In 2019, when Pakistan was not even a member of the Security Council, it was China which tried to bring this agenda item for a discussion, similar to what Pakistan has done here. It failed then, and that was after Article 370 was abrogated. Yet, a permanent member could not succeed. So, the Chinese and Pakistani relationship is well-known to the world and people quickly understand,” he added.