Tensions between India and Pakistan ratcheted up as the two countries traded military strikes, weeks after a militant attack in Kashmir killed 26 people in India, most of them tourists. New Delhi said Wednesday it had conducted “precise and restrained” strikes on “terrorist camps,

ISLAMABAD: The office of the prime minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, has said the country's armed forces have been authorised to undertake "corresponding actions" after India's air strikes on Wednesday (May 7).

India had already taken non-military action. After decades of confrontation it wants to expand its toolkit in response to what it views as Pakistani-backed terrorism. On April 23rd it suspended the Indus Water Treaty,