Welcome to the NewsHour. India has launched missile strikes against Pakistan tonight

in an apparent response to a deadly terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago.

India blamed those attacks on Pakistani militants and struck nine targets in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

The disputed border region each claims as its own. Nick Schifrin joins us now.

So Nick, what's the latest? Jeff, as you said, India says that it targeted terror sites in

Pakistan controlled Kashmir. But Pakistan says the strikes also hit in Pakistan's eastern

province of Pajum. And these are videos from Pakistan tonight. You see one of those explosions.

India calls this Operation Sindur and says these strikes are, quote, focused, measured,

a non-escalatory.

They didn't target any Pakistani military targets, and that India has, quote, demonstrated

considerable restraint.

As you guys said, India is responding to a terrorist attack last month in Pahligam,

an Indian administered Kashmir that killed more than two dozen Hindu tourists. India accused Pakistan

of backing that attack, a claim that Pakistan, of course, denies. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi

has been under enormous domestic pressure to respond to this

attack with the military.

An analyst tell me that India, frankly, feels like the aggrieved party right now and is not

worried about escalation.

And so Modi had to respond in part because he has been claiming that Kashmir was safe.

So based on your conversations, based on your reporting, is this likely to escalate?

In a word, unfortunately, yes.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shabash Sharif tonight said, quote, Pakistan has every right to give

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