Meanwhile, Indian airlines have cancelled their flights to and from various cities, including Jammu and Srinagar

Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory on Wednesday, four local government sources told Reuters, hours after India said it struck nine Pakistani "terrorist infrastructure" sites across the border

Several Asian airlines said on Wednesday they were re-routing or cancelling flights to and from Europe because of fighting between India and Pakistan

Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval briefed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shortly after New Delhi's strikes on Pakistan, the Indian embassy in Washington said Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken with his counterparts from India and Pakistan

'In total in at six locations there were 24 impacts in Pakistan'

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was responding to the Indian attacks but did not provide details

India today said it carried out "precision strikes at terrorist camps" inside Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region

26 killed in Pakistan, 12 in India: reports

"The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan."

The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said yesterday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir.

Seven Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed and five others wounded yesterday in a homemade bomb attack on a convoy in southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.

Pakistan yesterday conducted a second missile test and India ordered civil defence drills in an escalating stand-off over contested Kashmir that the UN said has brought the two nations to the brink of war.

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu addressed a press conference for nearly 15 hours, his office said yesterday, claiming it broke a previous record held by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

Pakistan’s military said it carried out a “training launch” of a surface-to-surface missile weapons system yesterday, further heightening tensions with India after last month’s deadly attack in disputed Kashmir.

Pakistan yesterday said it had “credible intelligence” that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiralling conflict grew over a deadly attack in Kashmir.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the country's military "operational freedom" to respond to a deadly attack in Kashmir last week, a senior government source told AFP yesterday, after New Delhi blamed it on arch-rival Pakistan.

Pakistan's military shot down an Indian drone along the de facto Kashmir border, state radio in Islamabad reported

Government officials and experts on both sides say India cannot stop water flows immediately

The deal comes as India's relations with arch-rival Pakistan plummet to fresh lows