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Between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m., Indian Air Force planes carried out a series of very coordinated, very systematic strikes on Pakistan.

Hannah Ellis Peterson is the Guardian's correspondent in India and Pakistan, where 1.7 billion people woke this morning

to news that India had launched what Pakistan calls an act of war.

Indian military, Indian armed forces have launched Operation Sindur hitting terrorist infrastructure

in Pakistan.

Pakistan has, when they directed missiles and drones over the border into Pakistan to strike nine targets.

They made it very clear that no Pakistani military bases or military infrastructure were targeted. They very much said

this was only to target the terrorist infrastructure, which they blame for militant activity

over Indian borders. The strikes, the largest for decades, are India's response to a terrorist

attack two weeks ago, that it says Pakistan was behind. Pakistan denies that.

It says 26 people, including several children, were killed in last night's strikes,

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