Fears of an all-out conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have abated with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, but the wounds of decades of strife are deep.

This is not a war, we are told. These are “targeted strikes,” “security responses,” “counterterrorism measures.” But in South Asia, [...]Read

At least 11 civilians were martyred and 56 injured, including women and children, as Indian forces shelled border villages in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Neelum Valley, according to AJK Information Minister Mazhar Saeed.

The region’s disaster management authority confirmed that Indian shelling had resulted in at least 13 civilians being martyred in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) during the past 12-hour span leading up to Saturday noon, Reuters reported.

Pakistan says India’s missile attacks on six locations killed at least eight people and wounded more than 35. Just after midnight on Wednesday, India’s army launched Operation Sindoor, hitting nine sites it described as “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

MUZAFFARABAD: In yet another night of devastation along the Line of Control (LoC), Indian troops resorted to intense artillery shelling past midnight on Saturday and continued firing in intervals until noon, leaving 13 more civilians martyred— including a three-year-old girl — and over 55 others wounded across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

Pakistan vowed retaliation after India launched missiles toward its neighbor in response to a deadly terrorist attack in the disputed region of Kashmir.

The government in Azad Kashmir has increased food rations in areas near the Line of Control. Officials now plan for two months of supplies instead of one. Trucks have started loading sacks of flour in Muzaffarabad.

A teenage girl and two children — including the 7-year-old son of an army officer — were killed in separate Indian missile attacks on civilian areas in Azad Jammu and Kashmir,