India, May 8 -- Indian armed forces on Wednesday targeted air defence radars at multiple locations in Pakistan and neutralised the air defence system at Lahore in response to overnight efforts by Islamabad to attack Indian military targets in at least 15 locations in northern and western India, the defence ministry said in a statement.

The overnight attack by Pakistan and the Indian retaliatory strikes come a day after the Indian armed forces conducted a 26-minute action, Operation Sindoor, with a mix of missiles and smart munitions fired by aircraft and ground forces to target bases of UN-proscribed terror groups such as Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) andJaish-e-Mohammed(JeM) located across the international border and the Line of Control (LoC)....