Operation Sindoor: Pakistan condemns India’s Operation and resorts to firing along the LOC
The violence came after nine terrorist locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were the target of an Indian military attack earlier in the day.
New Delhi( India) May 7: Following Indian attacks on terror groups in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday that at least three people were killed in Jammu and Kashmir as a result of cross-border firing by Pakistani forces.
The most recent violence came after nine terrorist locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were targeted by an Indian military attack. The strikes, known as "Operation Sindoor," were "focused, measured, and non-escalatory," according to a statement from India's Defence Ministry, which also stressed that no Pakistani military bases had been attacked.
“During the night of 06-07 May 2025, Pakistan Army resorted to arbitrary firing including Artillery shelling from posts across the Line of Control and IB opposite J&K,” Lt Colonel Suneel Baratwal, PRO (Defence), Northern Command, said. He added: “Three innocent civilians lost their lives in indiscriminate firing/shelling. The Indian Army are responding in proportionate manner.
Several sectors along the border reported heavy firing. According to local accounts, there was cross-border fire in Rajouri's Laam, Manjakote, and Gambeer Brahmana, as well as in Krishna Ghati, Shahpur, and Mankote in the Poonch district. The Kashmir Valley's Uri and Tangdhar areas also heard heavy artillery attack. Officials have not yet confirmed the death of a woman who was reported killed in Mankote.
Eight people have been killed in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir, and two Jammu and Kashmir police officers have been injured as a result of this attack.
Pakistan's external affairs ministry in a statement said "the Indian Air Force, while remaining within Indian airspace, attacked targets across the international border in Muridke and Bahawalpur, and across the Line of Control in Kotli and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) using standoff weapons.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General responsded to India's 'Operation Sindoor' and said in a statement that India's “temporary pleasure will be replaced by enduring grief”. It said that Islamabad will respond to it at a time and place of its own choosing and that the strikes "will not go unanswered'.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he is closely watching the situation between the two countries after receiving an update from India's National Security Advisor (NSA), Ajit Doval, shortly after New Delhi's strikes on Pakistan.
All schoola in the five districts of Jammu, Samba, Kathua, Rajouri, and Poonch are closed on Wednesday due to the current environment. Schools in border districts of Punjab and Rajasthan have also been asked to close.
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