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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken to both Pakistani army chief Asim Munir and India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

A handout says Rubio urged both sides to find ways to de-escalate the situation.

Rubio offered US assistance in starting "constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts" on his call with Munir and - when talking to Jaishankar - called on both sides to reduce tensions.

The Indian army says Pakistan's "blatant escalation" - using drone strikes and other munitions - continues along India's western borders.

In one such attempt at approximately 05:00 local time (23:30 Friday GMT), the army goes on, multiple enemy armed drones were spotted flying over Khasa Cantonment in Amritsar city, Punjab state, India.

"The hostile drones were instantly engaged and destroyed by our air defence units," the army says in a statement on X.

"Pakistan’s blatant attempt to violate India’s sovereignty and endanger civilians is unacceptable. Indian will thwart enemy designs."

• As a reminder: Pakistan's military earlier said it was taking retaliatory action against India after accusing Delhi of launching missiles at three of its airbases. India has not responded to those claims.

Reports of explosions have been coming from several places along the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, since the early hours of Saturday.

BBC reporters have heard explosions in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Srinagar and Jammu cities. The source of these explosions has not been identified.

Local media has also reported hearing the sound of explosions from Udhampur in Indian-administered Kashmir and Pathankot in Punjab - both places have Indian defence installations that Pakistan claims to have targeted.

Earlier, Pakistan claimed India had fired missiles at airbases in Rawalpindi - 10km (6.2m) from Pakistan's capital Islamabad - Chakwal and Shorkot. India is yet to comment on these claims.

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Claims of missile use will worry international communitypublished at 04:20 British Summer Time 10 May

04:20 BST 10 May

Anbarasan Ethirajan
South Asia regional editor

This is the moment few would have wanted to see happening in the subcontinent.

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan are now firing missiles at each other.

It's a dangerous one in the ongoing military escalation by both countries.

The Pakistani military says it has destroyed an Indian airbase, airfield and a missile storage unit in India. If it’s true, that’s a massive provocation. Islamabad said it was in response to India's missile strikes, including one close to the capital Islamabad. There has been no confirmation yet from the Indian side on Pakistan’s version of events.

After days of drone warfare, the two countries appear to have been fallen into an unknown, rather troubling territory.

The scale and intensity of the current skirmishes is the worst in three decades. The nature of the damage suffered by both sides will determine the next course of action in both capitals.

The international community must be worried at this point. With passions running high on both sides, it’s anybody’s guess on how far the escalation will be ratcheted up.

Azadeh Moshiri
Pakistan correspondent, reporting from Islamabad

"An eye for an eye", "Pakistan responds".

These are statements by Pakistan's military as it discusses what it’s called Operation Bunyanun Marsoos.

The army claims the counter-offensive is ongoing, with a spokesman saying it is targeting all air bases from which India had launched it's missiles.

A field supply depot, a battery site, artillery gun position and brigade headquarters are claimed to have been hit.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called a meeting of the National Command Authority, as the window for de-escalation appears to shrink.

The body is responsible for Pakistan's nuclear assets.

Pakistan's army is making a series of claims, including that it has destroyed India's S-400 defence systems.

It also says that it's launched a cyber-attack and hacked some of India's top websites, including that of the ruling BJP party.

The BBC cannot independently verify these claims, and India is yet to comment on them.

The BJP's website, however, is opening in India.

Aamir Peerzada
Reporting from Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

An eyewitness living near Srinagar airport tells me that he earlier heard what sounded like a jet flying close to the airport, followed by explosions.

He did not time the first occurrence, but on the second he said the explosion happened 13 seconds after the jet passed.

Another eyewitness, also near the airport, told me that at around 06:20 am local (00:50 GMT), "there was the sound of a jet, followed by an explosion".

They then saw a flare of smoke.

Shortly after reported strikes at around 03:15 local time (22:15 GMT) - which Pakistan claim were Indian and hit three of its airbases - Pakistan's Airports Authority closed the country's airspace to all traffic until midday local time.

And in the last few moments, the Airports Authority of India has announced it is closing 32 airports across the north and west of the country until the morning of 15 May.

Aamir Peerzada
Reporting from Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

I was woken up by two massive explosions in Srinagar at around 5:45 AM local time (00:15 GMT).

About 20 minutes later, three more blasts occurred.

The first two blasts shook our hotel in Srinagar.

There is a complete blackout in the city, and there is no clarity yet on what caused these sounds.

Pakistan's state TV and the army's public relations department say a counter-offensive against India has been launched, after it accused Delhi of launching missiles at three Pakistani airbases.

According to the Pakistan Army's Public Relations Department (ISPR), Pakistan has named the counter-offensive "Operation Banyan Marsus".

India has not commented on the development.

In a televised address earlier, Lt General Chaudhry, of the Pakistani military, said that although the majority of India's missiles were intercepted by air defence systems, others made it through.

He went on to say that the country's forces are "fully prepared", and called the strikes "cowardly".

One of the bases Pakistan claims was hit is Nur Khan, in Rawalpindi, the home of the country's military headquarters. It's located 10km (6.2m) from Pakistan's capital Islamabad.

As a reminder, India has not commented on the claims being made this evening.

A spokesman for Pakistan's military says India has fired missiles at three Pakistani military airbases. India has not commented on the claims.

In a live TV broadcast, aired by state television, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry warned India that it should "wait for our response".

Stay with us for live updates.

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Thanks for joining us for our live coverage of the on-going conflict between India and Pakistan. We're pausing this live page now.

This page was produced by Sharanya Hrishikesh, Geeta Pandey and Vikas Pandey in Delhi, with contributions from Soutik Biswas, Meryl Sebastian, Cherylann Mollan, Nikita Yadav, Neyaz Farooquee, Azadeh Moshiri, Anbarasan Ethirajan, Archana Shukla, Arunoday Mukherjee, Stephan Shemilt, Farhat Javed, Matthew Henry and Pinaki Chakraborty, and edited by Nikhil Inamdar and Flora Drury in London.

We have received multiple reports of cross-border shelling on Thursday night along the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. Our reporter Aamir Peerzada has been speaking to people living in Kupwara and Uri regions in Indian-administered Kashmir.

"We have never seen any shells landing in this village, this is the first time in my lifetime," Tanvir Ahmad, who lives in Kralpora, Kupwara, tells me.

His home was hit by a shell at about 05:00 local time on Friday, also hitting his truck and an earth digger the family owned.

"We're lucky that it didn't hit us, our shelter was just about 500 metres from this location," he says.

"There are no bunkers for civilians to hide in the area. Actually, we have never seen any shells landing in this village, but this is the first time in my lifetime."

Eyewitnesses in Uri also told us that there was intense shelling in the area. Nissar Hussain, from Uri, sent a voice note describing shelling which started at 21:00 on Thursday and continued throughout the night.

"We were staying in a mosque basement, which was built by villagers 10 years ago," Nissar says.

"When I went back in the morning, I saw three shells had hit the vicinity of my house, damaging parts of it."

A local influencer from Uri, Farhaan Lone, said it had "turned into a ghost town - almost 90% of the population have already left".

A woman, Nargis Bashir, is reported to have been killed as she and nine members of her family fled in a car.

"At around 20:30, the family was fleeing the ongoing shelling in a car," Nargis's uncle Sheikh Bashir said.

"Just within a kilometre after they left, a shell hit the car.

"Nargis died on the spot, and her sister was injured, she is now being treated at Baramulla hospital."

Azadeh Moshiri
BBC Pakistan correspondent

The Pakistan army is now contradicting comments made by government officials in recent days on the number of Indian soldiers killed.

As we have been reporting, Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar earlier this week claimed 40 to 50 soldiers had been killed.

When the BBC spoke to Pakistan’s defence minister, he said he believed about 25 Indian soldiers were killed as of Wednesday.

An army spokesman now says it had no official figure on the number of Indian soldiers killed as a result of firing across the Line of Control, and that the ministers were basing their figures on "chatter" in the media.

He also denied the Indian and Pakistan National Security Advisers are in-touch, contradicting an interview with the foreign minister on a Turkish broadcaster, TRT.

We're now hearing more from Pakistan about the drone attacks it says India has carried out in recent days.

Army officials speaking at a press conference say that 33 people have been killed since 6 May. Women and children are among the seven civilians who have died, the army said, our Pakistan correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports.

They also claim that, since 6 May, the army has shot and neutralised 77 Indian drones.

Hundreds of drones attempted to cross into India from Pakistan on Thursday night, Indian Col Sofia Quraishi has said.

She claimed the drones - which "initial reports" suggest were made in Turkey - targeted 36 areas in India.

"In response to the Pakistan attack, armed drones were launched at four air defence sites in Pakistan. One of the drones was able to destroy an AD radar," she said.

"Pakistan also carried out heavy artillery shelling across the Line of Control (the de facto border between the two countries) using heavy calibre artillery guns and drones."

Again, Pakistan has denied involvement in any overnight strikes.

Pakistan's defence minister told the BBC on Thursday that they had "not mounted anything so far", adding: "We will not strike and then deny."

In the last few minutes, we've heard from India’s foreign secretary, Vikram Misri.

Here are a few points from his address:

• He said escalatory actions undertaken by Pakistan last night were targeted at Indian cities and civilian infrastructure in addition to military establishments and that Indian armed forces responded "proportionately, adequately, and responsibly". Pakistan has denied it carried out these attacks
• Misri said a shell fired from Pakistan hit the home of two students from a school in Poonch in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing them and injuring their parents
• The services of the Kartarpur corridor - a visa-free border crossing and religious corridor connecting two gurudwaras (Sikh temples) - have been suspended
• India has had conversations with the foreign ministers of Norway and the UK around the recent developments stemming from the April 22 Pahalgam attack

The world's first drone war between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan has erupted in South Asia.

As Washington and other global powers urge restraint, the region is teetering on the edge of escalation, with drones - silent, remote and deniable - opening a new chapter in the India-Pakistan conflict.

So what exactly does this mean?

Read here for more analysis from the BBC's Soutik Biswas.

Nikhil Inamdar
Reporting from London

The border conflict with India couldn’t have come at a worse time for Pakistan. Its economy has just begun to recover from an abyss.

Gross domestic product (GDP) barely grew in 2023 amid rising import bills, dwindling foreign exchange reserves and spiralling inflation. In 2024, Pakistan clocked 2.5% growth, and is slated to grow at 3% in 2025, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

But the fog of conflict has complicated things, and presents a renewed setback for Islamabad.

ADB earlier expected growth this year to be driven by a “rebound in private sector investment linked to progress on reform measures, perceptions of greater economic stability, and a stable foreign exchange market”.

That calculus has now gone awry. The Pakistani rupee has tumbled, stocks are down sharply, and the last thing investors want is the looming threat of greater conflict when they take decisions on putting money into new projects.

Sustained escalation would also likely weigh on the government’s ongoing attempts to get its finances in order, “setting back Pakistan’s progress in achieving macroeconomic stability”, Moody's Ratings agency warned earlier.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet later today to decide on the next tranche of its $7bn (£5.2bn) bailout package to the country.