In a press conference by MEA, Foreign Secy Vikram Misri said that India only retaliated to the original escalation by terrorists on the attack in Pahalgam. Pakistan government has announced that they have increased the intensity of its unprovoked firing across the Line of Control after they claimed India has neutralised the Air Defense radars and system in Lahore.

The Pahalgam attack on April 22 led to the deaths of 26 civilians, igniting diplomatic tensions between India and Pakistan. India responded with strict measures and launched Operation Sindoor on May 7,

The foreign secretary described Pakistan’s allegation that India had targeted the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project as an 'absolute and complete fabrication and a blatant lie'