New Delhi, May 8 -- India carried out precision strikes on Pakistan, destroying 9 terrorist camps in its Punjab province and occupied Kashmir.

Codenamed Operation Sindoor, the strikes began at 1 AM when the country was asleep. Indian maintained a surprise element given the planned mock drill and IAF exercise.

Indian military carried out a "measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible" strike to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan to "deter and to pre-empt" any further terrorist strikes, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said, hours after India retaliated to the Pahalgam attack.

Addressing a packed press conference here, Misri said it was deemed essential that the perpetrators and planners of the April 22 attack be b...