Pakistan decries ‘act of war’ as it retaliates against India missile attack

India claims strikes, which followed attack on Hindu tourists in Kashmir last month, targeted terrorist infrastructure'

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At least 26 people, including several children, have been killed and 46 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine sites of terrorist infrastructure" inside Pakistan, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

Pakistan declared the strikes to be an act of war" and claimed it had shot down five Indian air force jets and a drone. Pakistan gives a befitting reply to India," said the Pakistan government in a statement.