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‘Act of war’: Pakistan pledges retaliation to Indian deadly attacks

A Pakistan Army soldier stands in front of damaged Bilal Mosque after it was hit by an Indian strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, May 7, 2025. [Stringer/Reuters]

Pakistan has accused India of committing a “blatant act of war” and promised retaliation after New Delhi launched deadly missile attacks along their contested border in disputed Kashmir, in the worst eruption of violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades.

In an address before Pakistan’s parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif denounced as “cowardly” the attack carried out by India, as he repeated Islamabad’s assertion it had nothing to do with the April 22 Pahalgam attack in the Indian-administered Kashmir region.

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