LIVE: Pakistan's Prime Minister Addresses Nation Amid India Conflict

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses the nation.

The Indian government said its strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir targeted “terrorist infrastructure”.

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Pakistan “won’t take long to settle the score” following India’s attack, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the Pakistani defence minister, has said.

Asif described the overnight missile strikes as a “cowardly act” and told the AFP news agency that the retaliation “has already started”.

He also accused India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, of launching the missile strikes to “shore up” his popularity at home.

In later comments on TV on Wednesday morning, Asif suggested the situation could be resolved if India backed down. He said: “This has been initiated by India. We have to defend ourselves. But if India backs down, we will definitely wrap up this tension.”

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