Tensions rising as India ‘hits targets in Pakistan’

‘India says it has conducted “surgical strikes” across the de facto borderline dividing the disputed region of Kashmir against militants preparing to infiltrate, with Islamabad denying any such attack and saying instead that cross-border fire from India had killed two of its soldiers.
India said on Thursday that it had been conducting a series of “surgical strikes” against what it said were militant positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir since Wednesday night, saying the offensive was based on “very specific and credible” intelligence information.
Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, India’s director-general of military operations, who was addressing a press conference in New Delhi, said the strikes, aimed at barring the militants from alleged further infiltration, had inflicted “significant casualties” on militants and their supporters.’
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