India’s Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, has said that missile strikes against Pakistan were a “carefully planned” operation that exercised New Delhi’s “right to respond”.
India’s military said the strikes destroyed “nine terrorist camps” belonging to those it blames for an attack last month in Indian-administered Kashmir; which killed twenty-six people.
Pakistan however said twenty-one civilians were killed in the strikes, with five more deaths reported in cross-border gunfire that followed.
