retaliatory strikes<\/a>\u00a0against India on Saturday had specifically targeted military infrastructure New Delhi had used to launch its earlier attacks in \u201ca powerful and well-coordinated response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nEarlier Saturday, Pakistan\u2019s military said it launched an operation against India, in retaliation to India launching missiles at key military bases, including one close to the capital Islamabad.
Hours later, explosions were reported in India-administered Kashmir, including Srinagar, the region\u2019s largest city, and the city of Jammu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cause of the blasts was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pakistan launched the strikes on Saturday as part of \u2018Operation Banyan al-Marsous,\u2019 Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement issued by his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sharif said Pakistan had on Saturday given \u201ca powerful and well-coordinated response to India\u2019s unprovoked aggression,\u201d and accused India of launching \u201cmissile and drone attacks on Pakistan, targeting Noor Khan Airbase and other locations early this morning, killing innocent civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CNN: Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister said that\u00a0retaliatory strikes\u00a0against India on Saturday had specifically targeted military infrastructure New Delhi had used to launch its earlier attacks in \u201ca powerful and well-coordinated response.\u201d Earlier Saturday, Pakistan\u2019s military said it launched an operation against India, in retaliation to India launching missiles at key military bases, including one close to the capital Islamabad.Hours later, explosions were reported in India-administered Kashmir, including Srinagar, the region\u2019s largest city, and the city of Jammu. The cause of the blasts was not immediately clear. Pakistan launched the strikes on Saturday as part of \u2018Operation Banyan al-Marsous,\u2019 Prime Minister Muhammad… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46921,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46919\/revisions\/46921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}