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India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Wednesday that missile strikes against Pakistan were a “carefully planned” operation that exercised New Delhi’s “right to respond”.
India’s military said the strikes destroyed “nine terrorist camps” belonging to those it blames for an attack last month in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people.
Pakistan said 21 civilians were killed in the strikes, with five more deaths reported in cross-border gunfire that followed.
Among the dead were four children, including two three-year-old girls, according to officials in Islamabad.
