Daily Brief Special Update: India and Pakistan Conflict (May 6, 2025)
India struck at least five locations in Pakistan early Wednesday in missile attacks that follow two weeks of increased tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors sparked by the April 23 killing of 26 civilians in India-controlled Kashmir, which India has blamed on Pakistan-backed militants.
- Pakistan says India hit five locations – three of them in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and two in Pakistan’s Punjab province. India claims to have struck nine locations.
- Pakistani military officials say their country will respond at a "time and place of its own choosing," though some reports say Pakistan has already launched retaliatory strikes.
- State-run Pakistan Television cites security officials as saying that Pakistan’s air force shot down two Indian jets, but provided no additional details.
- Indian officials say the missile strikes targeted "terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed."
Additional updates from various sources:
- An Indian Air Force fighter jet is reported to have crashed into a school in Wyun, Pulwama, South Kashmir. (6:47pm EDT)
- All airports across Pakistan have been shut down for 12 hours. (6:48pm EDT)
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for maximum military restraint from India and Pakistan, according to his spokesperson. (6:49pm EDT)
- Pakistani officials say India's strikes are an "unprovoked and blatant act of war." (9:37 PM EDT)
- Reports say hospitals have been put on alert and schools closed in both countries' shared border regions. (9:38pm EDT)
- Reports cite Pakistani security sources as saying that at least five Indian Air Force jets and one drone have been shot down by Pakistan during the India's airstrikes. (9:40pm EDT)