JAMMU, May 7 -- In a show of solidarity with the armed forces, scores of youth thronged the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu on Wednesday to donate blood for those injured in Pakistani shelling.

Besides, pro-military demonstrations erupted across the region in the wake of Operation Sindoor - India's retaliatory missile strikes early Wednesday on nine terror infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), including the Jaish-e-Mohammad's stronghold in Bahawalpur and the Lashkar-e-Taiba base in Muridke.

The strikes came in response to the horrific terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam in which 26 civilians were killed in cold blood on April 22.

The blood donation campaign witnessed overw...