India says strikes on Pakistan were 'right to respond'


Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

NEW DELHI: India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Wednesday (May 7) that missile strikes against Pakistan were a "carefully planned" operation that exercised New Delhi's "right to respond".

India's military said the strikes destroyed "nine terrorist camps" belonging to those it blames for an attack last month in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people.

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