Overview

• India's Operation Sindoor involved 24 missile strikes targeting nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, killing 70 militants and injuring 60.
• Pakistan retaliated with artillery shelling along the Line of Control, resulting in the deaths of at least 16 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.
• Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin has called for the United States to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror, citing its alleged role in harboring militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba.
• Rubin criticized Pakistan's treatment of religious minorities, calling it a distraction tactic of a 'failed state' to deflect from internal failures.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged restraint and de-escalation in conversations with leaders from both India and Pakistan.