India, May 7 -- In response to India's Operation Sindoor strikes overnight on Tuesday, Pakistan Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said that New Delhi had violated Article 51 of the UN Charter. In a statement, Dar said that Pakistan reserves the 'right to respond appropriately'. This comes after Indian forces targeted nine terror sites in Pakistan in response to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.

After the strikes, the Indian defence ministry said that the armed forces targeted sites 'from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed'. The mission was codenamed 'Operation Sindoor'.

"Our actions have been focused, measured, and non-escalatory in nature," the statement further read. "No P...