The Indian armed forces launched ‘Operation Sindoor,’ hitting nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted, the statement added.Multiple loud explosions were heard in the mountains around the city of Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, as well as in two other places in the region, Reuters witnesses and a Pakistani TV channel reported on Wednesday.After the explosions, Muzaffarabad's power was blacked out, the witnesses said. It was not immediately clear what the explosions were.A spokesman for Pakistan's military told broadcaster ARY that India had attacked Pakistan with missiles in three places and that Pakistan would respond.The development comes amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of an attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir last month.India blamed Pakistan for the violence in which 26 men were killed and vowed to respond. Pakistan denied that it had anything to do with the killings and said that it had intelligence that India was planning to attack.
