Operation Sindoor

Pakistan responded with artillery shelling in Poonch and Tangdhar, causing deaths of 15 civilians and injuries to 43 others, Indian military officials said.

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Victims included women and children taking shelter in a Poonch gurudwara.

Soon after the strikes, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval briefed his counterparts, including American NSA and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the UK's Jonathan Powell, Saudi Arabia's Musaid Al Aiban, the United Arab Emirates' H H Sheikh Tahnoon, and Japan's Masataka Okano about India's response against the terror infrastructure in Pakistan and that India had no intent to escalate tensions but was prepared to "retaliate resolutely" if Pakistan did so, an official said. Contact was also established with Russian NSA Sergei Shoigu, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, and Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic advisor to the French President. At a 10.30 am press briefing, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri appeared alongside Colonel Sofia Qureshi of the Army's Corps of Signals, and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh of the Indian Air Force. Misri said India carried out the "proportionate" strikes to bring the perpetrators and planners of the April 22 Pahalgam attack to justice as there was "no demonstrable step" from Pakistan to act against terrorist infrastructure on territories under its control.