According to the news agency PTI, the Pakistan Army bombarded dozens of forward villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir with artillery and mortar firing on Wednesday, killing seven people, including a lady and two children, and injuring 38 more.

Following India’s missile attacks on nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Indian Army responded to the shelling in equal measure, according to PTI, which also stated that Pakistani troops had violated the ceasefire.

According to authorities, all seven of the fatalities occurred in the Poonch area, which was the worst affected. Twenty-five more people were wounded.

According to authorities, three people were hurt in Rajouri district and ten in the Uri region of Baramulla district.

Indian military troops launched missile attacks on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir early on Wednesday in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror assault. These targets included the Lashkar-e-Taiba camp in Muridke and the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold in Bahawalpur.

Two weeks after the Pahalgam incident, which claimed the lives of 26 people, the military attacks were carried out as part of Operation Sindoor.

“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,” the defense ministry stated in a statement at 1.44 a.m.

Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, called the Indian missile attacks a “act of war” and said that his nation had every right to respond “befittingly.”

“No military installations in Pakistan have been targeted,” the Indian statement added. India has shown a great deal of prudence in choosing its goals and its execution strategy.

It said that no Pakistani military installations have been targeted and that the Indian military’s activities have been “focused, measured, and non-escalatory in nature.”

According to sources who spoke to PTI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was keeping a careful eye on Operation Sindoor, and the attacks on all nine targets were successful.

Two weeks after the Pahalgam terror assault, which caused intense indignation both domestically and internationally, India took these steps.

The defense ministry stated in a statement, “These actions follow the savage Pahalgam terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen.”

“We are living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable,” added the statement.