Pakistan's army said it shot down 25 Indian drones, while New Delhi accused Islamabad of launching overnight raids with "drones and missiles", and claimed it destroyed an air defence system in Lahore

Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to retaliate after India launched deadly missile strikes

This was the second time that top government functionaries and opposition leaders met

It comes a day after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in two decades.

The nuclear-armed rivals experienced their worst violence in two decades on Wednesday

India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier yesterday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades.

Offers to help end the worst violence between the nuclear-armed countries in two decades

Bangladesh has expressed deep concern over the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, urging both countries to remain calm, exercise restraint, and refrain from taking any actions that could further aggravate the situation.

PM Shehbaz has vowed that “every drop of blood” spilt by those slain in last night’s air strikes by India would be avenged

BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has condemned the military attacks in a neighbouring country, expressing condolences to the families of the victims

It is too early, and rather preliminary, to conclude that India-Pakistan tensions have escalated to a “war.”

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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said India's response was 'non-escalatory and measured'

India said it struck nine Pakistani 'terrorist infrastructure' sites, some of them linked to an attack by Islamist militants on tourists that killed 26 people in Indian Kashmir last month

Here is a chronology of major military and diplomatic escalations in their troubled relationship since 1999

Islamabad has said six Pakistani locations were targeted, and a total of 24 impacts felt from different weapons.

Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory on Wednesday, four local government sources told Reuters, hours after India said it struck nine Pakistani "terrorist infrastructure" sites across the border

India and Pakistan are in the middle of their biggest crises in years.

Several Asian airlines said on Wednesday they were re-routing or cancelling flights to and from Europe because of fighting between India and Pakistan

'In total in at six locations there were 24 impacts in Pakistan'