India attacked nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday.

‘Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution,’ it said in a statement.

India’s offensive occurred amid heightened tensions in the aftermath of an attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.

Islamist assailants killed 26 men in the April 22 attack, the worst such violence targeted at civilians in India in nearly two decades.

Pakistan said it was mounting a response as the worst fighting in years erupted between the longstanding enemies.

WHERE DID THIS HAPPEN?

Pakistan said India launched missiles at three places. India said it struck ‘terrorist infrastructure’ where attacks against it were planned and directed.

Indian TV channels showed video of explosions, fire, large plumes of smoke in the night sky and people fleeing in several places in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir. Reuters could not independently verify the footage.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif told Geo that all sites targeted by India were civilian and not militant camps.

WHAT ARE THE CASUALTIES?

A Pakistani military spokesman told broadcaster Geo that sites struck by India included two mosques and said there had been at least three deaths and 12 people injured.

Asif said India fired missiles from its own airspace and India’s claim of targeting ‘camps of terrorists is false’.

After India’s strikes, the Indian army said in a post on X on Wednesday: ‘Justice is served.’

WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO KNOW?

India blamed Pakistan for the violence last month in which 26 men were killed and vowed to respond. Pakistan denied that it had anything to do with the killings and said that it had intelligence that India was planning to attack.

The name of India’s military operation, Sindoor, is an apparent reference to the women who lost their spouses in last month’s attack.

Sindoor is the Hindi for the traditional red vermilion worn by married Hindu women on their forehead symbolising protection and marital commitment. Women traditionally stop wearing it when they are widowed.