India strikes Pakistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir

India and Pakistan exchange fire across the line of control between Indian- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir after India launched Operation Sindoor.
Pakistan says India’s missile attacks on Punjab province and Pakistan-administered Kashmir killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens. Indian officials say at least 10 have been killed and more wounded in Indian-administered Kashmir due to Pakistani fire.Qatar’s PM holds phone call with India’s foreign minister
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has spoken with India’s foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and expressed Doha’s concern over the mounting tensions with Pakistan.

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on X that Sheikh Mohammed, who is the Gulf state’s prime minister and foreign minister, reaffirmed Doha’s commitment to help find a concerted solution through dialogue and peaceful means.India’s cricket coach calls to halt matches with Pakistan
India’s national cricket team head coach, Gautam Gambhir, has said India should stop playing Pakistan entirely, as tensions between the two nations escalate.

“My personal answer to this is absolutely no,” Gambhir said yesterday, hours before India conducted air attacks on its neighbour. “‘Till all this [stops], there should not be anything between India and Pakistan.”

He added that the final decision about national cricket matches lies with the government and that he would respect whatever it decides.

While two-way cricket between India and Pakistan has been suspended since 2013, they still play each other in multiteam tournaments, mostly in neutral venues.

Any match between the archrivals remains a cricketing blockbuster and is declared sold out within hours after tickets go on sale. India has dominated the rivalry in recent years, but emotions still run high on either side of the border.UK says ‘ready to support’ India, Pakistan amid tensions
The UK has offered to play a diplomatic role in the India-Pakistan conflict, calling both countries a “friend” and “partner”.

“We stand ready to support both countries,” UK Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told BBC Radio.

“Both have a huge interest in regional stability, in dialogue, in de-escalation and anything we can do to support that, we are here and willing to do.”Pakistan’s National Security Committee says India ‘ignited an inferno’
Pakistan’s National Security Committee (NSC) has said India “has once again ignited an inferno in the region” and called on the international community to recognise the gravity of its “unprovoked illegal actions and to hold it accountable for its blatant violations of international norms and laws”.

In a statement released after a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the NSC said India’s “unjustified attacks deliberately targeted the civilian areas, on the false pretext of presence of imaginary terrorist camps”, and caused “grave danger to commercial airlines”.

“The responsibility for ensuing consequences shall lie squarely with India,” it said.