According to a statement from India's defense department, the country has struck with robots against infrastructure used for planning terrorist attacks against Indian targets. No military targets have been attacked, the department claims.
"Our actions have been focused and measured and not of an escalating nature," the department writes about the operation called "Operation Sindoor" according to The Times of India.
Pakistan's military has a different picture of the attacks.
A cowardly attack that targeted innocent lives, says spokesperson Ahmad Sharif to Pakistani TV channel ARY News according to news agency AP.
At least three people have been killed and twelve injured, writes news agency Reuters, which, citing Pakistani military, reports that three mosques have also been hit.
The military says it will respond to the Indian attack, while India says Pakistan has already responded with artillery.
Closed Water Flow
On Tuesday, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech said that the country will shut off water flows from rivers flowing from India to Pakistan.
India's water used to flow out, now it will stay in India, he said.
On Monday, reports emerged that India had shut off the water flow in the Chenab River, which flows into Pakistan – despite Pakistan having warned several times that the country would see such a move as an act of war.
India paused a joint water distribution agreement at the end of April, a stop that is said to continue until Pakistan "credibly and irreversibly denies its support to cross-border terrorism".
At Boiling Point
UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries to calm down on Monday, but noted that the tension in Kashmir was at a "boiling point".
Tensions between Pakistan and India have increased sharply in recent weeks, following a massacre on April 22 in the Indian-controlled part of the long-disputed Kashmir region. India accuses Pakistan of having given its support to the perpetrators, which is denied by the country.
A naturally beautiful region in the western end of the Himalayan mountain range, approximately one-third the size of Sweden. Under British colonial rule, the area was a principality.
At independence in 1947, the ruler, the maharaja, opted between joining Pakistan or India. Unrest broke out, both countries deployed military and war broke out. The conflict ended in a stalemate, and a so-called control line between Kashmir's northern parts, controlled by Pakistan, and the southern parts taken by India.
Despite two more wars since then, this line serves as a provisional border even today.
The Indian-controlled part had long had relatively far-reaching autonomy. But it was withdrawn in 2019. Parts of the Pakistani side are called Azad Kashmir ("Free Kashmir") and have relatively great self-determination within Pakistan.
China is also involved, and holds the inhospitable northeastern parts of Kashmir.
