Security personnel stand guard in Kashmir’s Wuyan on May 7, 2025. India launched airstrikes on Pakistan on May 7, 2025.
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IMRAN NISSAR
At least 12 civilians, including three women and three children, were killed, and 51 others injured as the Pakistan Army resorted to heavy mortar shelling and firing on villages, hitting scores of houses and vehicles in four districts close to the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K on Wednesday (May 7, 2025). One Indian soldier was killed in “unprovoked shelling by Pakistani forces” close to the LoC in the Poonch sector, officials said.
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Pakistani troops resorted to cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir for the second consecutive day on Thursday (May 8, 2025).
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Droupadi Murmu and chaired a Cabinet meeting to brief his colleagues on the military strikes. The government has also called an all-party meeting to brief all political parties on ‘Operation Sindoor’ in Parliament on Thursday (May 8, 2025). Security has been tightened in Punjab, especially in the border districts, even as Himachal Pradesh reviewed the State’s security, transport, and communication systems on Wednesday (May 7, 2025). This came after India launched attacks on terror infrastructure in Pakistan as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’.
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