Deaths on both sides as India launches air strikes on 'terrorist camps' inside Pakistan and Islamabad retaliates: 'Three Indian planes shot down' as nuclear-armed rivals go on war footing

The long-simmering conflict between the neighboring nuclear powers intensified dramatically overnight. Fighter jets roared through the skies over the Himalayan territory early Wednesday and the sounds of explosions could be heard near the so-called Line of Control. '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 Indian government said in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Indian army added that no Pakistani military facilities had been targeted, noting that India had 'demonstrated...