A day after the Indian armed forces targeted terror infrastructure deep inside Pakistan and Pak-occupied-Kashmir as part of 'Operation Sindoor', Pakistani troops resorted to heavy cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday.
As per reports, Pakistani troops targeted civilian areas in the Karnah area and fired shells and mortars after midnight.
PTI reported officials as saying that the Indian armed forces retaliated effectively against the unprovoked firing. No casualties had been reported.
Operation Sindoor launched to avenge Pahalgam attack: Follow Live Blog
India had launched airstrikes deep into Pakistan as part of 'Operation Sindoor' early on Wednesday, to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack where 26 people were killed by terrorists affiliated to Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba's offshoot The Resistance Front.
Following the April 22 attack, PM Modi held a high-level meeting with the top defence officials on April 29 and gave the armed forces "complete operational freedom" to decide on the mode, targets and timing of the response to the Pahalgam incident.
Informing of the details of Operation Sindoor, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that Indian military carried out a "measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible" strike to dismantle terrorist infrastructure at nine terror hubs in Pakistan to "deter and to pre-empt" any further terrorist strikes, .
Misri said it was deemed necessary that the perpetrators and planners of the Pahalgam terror attack be brought to justice as there was "no demonstrable" step from Islamabad to take action against the terror infrastructure on its territory or on territory under its control.
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