India attacked nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday with at least eight deaths reported, and Pakistan said it was mounting a response as the worst fighting in years erupted between the longstanding enemies. Indian army said that three civilians had been killed overnight by artillery fired by Pakistan's army along their de facto Line of Control border with contested Kashmir. Following are the live updates of the full-blown India-Pakistan escalation:
07:48 AM | 07 May 2025
Fighter jet crashed in Indian Kashmir; injured pilot taken to hospital: Indian official
06:32 AM | 07 May 2025
Pakistan says the UN security council informed that Pakistan reserves the right to respond appropriately to Indian aggression.
06:30 AM | 07 May 2025
Indian army says three civilians killed by Pakistani artillery fire
AFP, Poonch
India's army said Wednesday that three civilians had been killed overnight by artillery fired by Pakistan's army along their de facto Line of Control border with contested Kashmir.
"During the night of May 06-07... Pakistan Army resorted to arbitrary firing including artillery shelling from posts across the Line of Control and IB (international border) opposite Jammu and Kashmir", the army said in a statement.
"Three innocent civilians lost their lives in indiscriminate firing/shelling", it added, saying that the Indian army is "responding in proportionate manner".
05:55 AM | 07 May 2025
Rubio urges India-Pakistan talks to 'defuse' situation: White House
AFP, Washington
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken with his counterparts from India and Pakistan, encouraging both sides to engage in discussions to settle an escalating military confrontation, the White House said Tuesday.
"He is encouraging India and Pakistan to re-open a channel between their leadership to defuse the situation and prevent further escalation," said US National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes in a statement, after India carried out air strikes on Pakistani soil.
05:49 AM | 07 May 2025
8 Pakistanis killed, 35 injured, 2 missing: military
AFP, Islamabad
The death toll from Indian strikes on Pakistan has increased to eight, the country's military spokesman said Wednesday, as India fired missiles at Pakistani territory and Islamabad vowed to "settle the score".
"In total in at six locations there were 24 impacts in Pakistan. In these 24 impacts eight Pakistanis have been martyred and 35 have been injured and two are missing," Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, adding one 3-year-old girl was killed in a mosque in Punjab province.
05:25 PM | 07 May 2025
India lost 5 planes
India has lost five planes, said Pakistan defence minister to Reuters.
05:44 AM | 07 May 2025
Qatar Airways suspends flights to Pakistan
Qatar Airways has temporarily suspended flights to Pakistan due to Pakistani airspace closure.
The airways posted a statement on X, reports Reuters.
05:02 AM | 07 May 2025
Pakistan says civilians hit, claims downing 2 Indian jets

Security personnel cordon-off a street as local residents evacuate their homes near the site of a strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 7, 2025. Photo: AFP/Sajjad Qayyum
Pakistan today said that Indian missiles hit civilians causing deaths as it vowed retaliation.  
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was responding to the Indian attacks but did not provide details. 
An emergency was declared in Pakistan's populous province of Punjab, its chief minister said, and hospitals and emergency services were on high alert.
04:51 AM | 07 May 2025
India calls strikes ‘non-escalatory in nature’
India today said it carried out "precision strikes at terrorist camps" inside Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region, reports AFP.
The long-simmering conflict between the neighboring nuclear powers intensified dramatically overnight. Fighter jets roared through the skies over the Himalayan territory early yesterday 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 government said in a statement.
04:46 AM | 07 May 2025
Pakistan summons National Security Committee amid esclation with India
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has summoned a meeting of the National Security Committee set for Wednesday, a senior official said, after the militaries of India and Pakistan clashed overnight.
"PM summons the National Security Committee meeting at 10 AM (0500 GMT)" the Minister of Information Attaullah Tarar said.
04:43 AM | 07 May 2025
India briefed US after strikes on Pakistan: Indian embassy
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval briefed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shortly after New Delhi's strikes on Pakistan, the Indian embassy in Washington said Tuesday, reports AFP.
"India's actions have been focused and precise," the embassy said in a statement, adding that Rubio, who is also currently the acting US national security advisor, had been briefed "on the actions taken."
04:15 AM | 07 May 2025
UN chief concerned over Indian military actions in Pakistan
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was very concerned about Indian military operations in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, his spokesperson said on Tuesday while calling for maximum military restraint from India and Pakistan.
"The secretary-general is very concerned about the Indian military operations across the Line of Control and international border. He calls for maximum military restraint from both countries," the spokesperson said.
"The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan."
04:10 AM | 07 May 2025
Trump calls Indian strikes in Kashmir dispute a 'shame'
US President Donald Trump termed rising India-Pakistan tensions a shame, after India attacked nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir following an April 22 Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir, reports Reuters.
Pakistan said it was mounting a response to India's military actions that occurred early on Wednesday Asia time and late Tuesday US time.
"It's a shame, we just heard about it," Trump told reporters at the White House. "I guess people knew something was going to happen based on a little bit of the past. They've been fighting for a long time."
03:47 AM | 07 May 2025
3 civilians killed in Indian strikes: Pakistan defence minister to AFP
At least three civilians, including a child, were killed after India fired missiles at Pakistani territory early Wednesday, Pakistan's Minister of Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif told AFP.
"They have targeted multiple locations, which all are civilian... We have confirmed reports of three civilians killed that includes one child," Asif told AFP.
03:15 AM | 07 May 2025
India says Pakistan fires artillery across dividing line in Kashmir
AFP, Srinagar
India on Wednesday accused Pakistan of violating the ceasefire agreement with artillery fire across the dividing line in Kashmir, soon after New Delhi said that it had hit targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
"Pakistan again violates the Ceasefire Agreement by firing Artillery in Bhimber Gali in Poonch- Rajauri area," on the Indian side, Indian army said in a post on X. The army "is responding appropriately in a calibrated manner," it added.
02:52 AM | 07 May 2025
India carried out strikes in three Pakistan regions: Pakistan army
AFP, Islamabad
India carried out "air strikes" in three regions of Pakistan, the Pakistani army announced late Tuesday, citing two towns in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and a third in Punjab, bordering India.
AFP correspondents in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Punjab heard several loud explosions.
"Pakistan will respond to (India's attacks) at a time and place of its own choosing," said Lieutenant-General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the military spokesperson, said, calling the air strikes a "heinous provocation."
• Heavy shelling, gunfire reported across Kashmir frontier
• Pakistan says India launched missiles
• New Delhi claims hitting 9 'terrorist sites'
• Pakistan claims downing 5 Indian jets
• At least 8 killed: Pakistan military; 3 killed in shelling: Indian army
• US, UN sound alarm
• Fighter jet crashes in Indian Kashmir; pilot hospitalised