Pakistan launched multiple attacks along Indias western border, India says

Pakistan’s armed forces launched “multiple attacks” using drones and other munitions along India’s entire western border on Thursday night and early Friday, the Indian army said, as conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours intensified.The old enemies have been clashing since India struck multiple locations in Pakistan on Wednesday, which it said were “terrorist camps,” in retaliation for a deadly attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.Pakistan denied it was involved in the attack but both countries have exchanged cross-border fire and shelling and sent drones and missiles into each other’s airspace since then, with nearly four dozen people dying in the violence.The fighting is the deadliest since a limited conflict between the two countries in Kashmir’s Kargil region in 1999.India targeting cities in Pakistan’s mainland provinces outside Pakistani Kashmir is a first since their full-scale war in 1971.The Indian army said Pakistani troops had resorted to “numerous ceasefire violations” along the countries’ de facto border in Kashmir, a region that is divided between them but claimed in full by both.“The drone attacks were effectively repulsed and befitting reply was given to the CFVs (ceasefire violations),” the army said, adding all “nefarious designs” would be responded to with “force.”Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the Indian army statement was “baseless and misleading”, and that Pakistan had not undertaken any “offensive actions” targeting areas within Indian Kashmir or beyond the country’s border.Islamabad had earlier denied attacking Pathankot city in India’s Punjab state, Srinagar in the Kashmir valley, and Rajasthan state’s Jaisalmer, saying the accusations were “unfounded” and “politically motivated.”A “major infiltration bid” was “foiled” in Kashmir’s Samba region on Thursday night, India’s Border Security Force said, and heavy artillery shelling...