Retaliation by Pakistan amid trepidations across border
Pakistan’s military has launched a wave of short-range missiles into India early on Saturday, as India targeted air bases deep inside Pakistan and the military conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours escalated closer to a full-scale war.
Pakistan said it had launched Operation “Bunyan-un-Marsoos” — named after a Koranic word roughly meaning a “wall of lead” — as a response to missile and drone attacks by India since May 7..