India, May 7 -- The Pakistan government on Wednesday reserved the right to respond "at a time, place and manner of its choosing" to India's military strikes on terrorist infrastructure in territories controlled by Islamabad in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack.

Soon after Indian launched Operation Sindoor to target nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) early on Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Pakistan has "every right to give a befitting reply to this act of war". The Pakistani military's media arm said 26 people were killed and 46 injured at six locations.

After Sharif chaired a meeting of the National Security Committee, which was attended by the three service chiefs, an official sta...