India launches attack on nine sites in Pakistan 

Indian security officers inspect the site a day after where militants indiscriminately opened fire at tourists in Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir on April 23. 

The Indian armed forces launched "Operation Sindoor," hitting nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

A statement from the Indian armed forces reads:

A little while ago, the Indian Armed Forces launched ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed.

Altogether, nine sites have been targeted.

It said its actions have been “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature” and that no Pakistani military facilities were targeted, adding:

India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution.

The statement says the strike comes in the wake of the “barbaric” attack in which dozens of Indians were murdered in Pahalgam in Kashmir.

This comes as multiple loud explosions were heard in the mountains around the city of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, as well as in two other places in the region, Reuters witnesses and a Pakistani TV channel reported on Wednesday.

After the explosions, Muzaffarabad's power was blacked out, the witnesses said. It was not immediately clear what the explosions were.

A spokesman for Pakistan's military told broadcaster ARY that India had attacked Pakistan with missiles in three places and that Pakistan would respond.