In a press conference by MEA, Foreign Secy Vikram Misri said that India only retaliated to the original escalation by terrorists on the attack in Pahalgam. Pakistan government has announced that they have increased the intensity of its unprovoked firing across the Line of Control after they claimed India has neutralised the Air Defense radars and system in Lahore.

The foreign secretary described Pakistan’s allegation that India had targeted the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project as an 'absolute and complete fabrication and a blatant lie'

India on Thursday said its precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir were a "controlled, precise.