India, May 9 -- On the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, Indian forces thwarted several Pakistani missile strikes on cities along the India-Pakistan border. As many as 50 drones were neutralised by Indian Army Air Defence Units in border areas such as Udhampur, Jammu, Akhnoor and more.

The Pakistani military attempted to target as many as 15 cities in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, which Pakistan shares a border with, according to the defence ministry. The cities include - Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bathinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai and Bhuj.

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Many of these cities experienced a total blackout am...