India and Pakistan have blamed each other for escalating tensions as the US and others countries urge both sides to de-escalate
On Thursday, India's army accused Pakistan of launching drones and missiles on three military bases in India and Indian-administered Kashmir, which Islamabad denies
Pakistan said earlier it had shot down 25 Indian drones - India has not commented
Pakistan says 31 people have been killed and 57 injured by air strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and firing along the Line of Control, since Wednesday morning
Meanwhile, India's army says at least 16 civilians were killed by Pakistani shelling on its side of the de facto border
India says the initial missile strikes were a response to a deadly militant attack on Indian tourists in Pahalgam last month - Islamabad denies involvement
Indian-administered Kashmir has seen a decades-long insurgency which has claimed thousands of lives. India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir in full
Watch: How tensions escalated between India and Pakistan
Sharif says: “My Pakistani people, for your own safety, our army and our people, we will always be united. We will definitely stand against them [India] and win.”
He ends his address by saying that for the safety of the country, he needs the courage of the Pakistani people, and “because we are all fighting for the truth, hopefully god will always be with us”.
Sharif continues, saying the deadly attack that happened in Pahalgam last month "wasn't related" to Pakistan - and that the country was "accused for the wrong" reasons.
We asked for an investigation, he says, before accusing India of disagreeing with and ignoring the request.
Image source, APSharif describes India's strikes as "cowardly" and says Pakistan showed last night that it can fight back.
He says that within one hour there was "a continuous fight" on the Line of Control (Loc) - the de facto border between India and Pakistan - where the army fought, showing their bravery.
"They destroyed the planes of our attackers and enemies," he adds, again referencing Pakistan's military saying it had downed Indian jets, which Dehli has not commented on.
India's strikes killed 26 people and left 46 others injured, including women and children, Pakistan's PM says.
He adds that a seven-year-old boy was at home with his mother and brother when he was killed.
"Keep you hands on your hearts," he says, adding: "I promise that we will take revenge for every drop of blood of these victims."
Image source, APThe PM starts by saying that last night, India made a mistake by launching strikes on Pakistan, and says “they have to pay back”.
He says perhaps India thought Pakistan would step back, but India “forgot that this is...a nation who knows to fight for their country”.
He says the air force made its defence - a reference to Pakistan's claim is downed Indian jets, which Delhi has not confirmed - which he says is a "reply from our side to them".
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is now addressing the nation.
You can watch his translated remarks at the top of the page and we'll bring you the key lines here.
While we wait for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's address to begin, we can bring you new images of damage following Indian strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir overnight.
According to officials, three locations were targeted: Muzaffarabad and Kotli in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
Image source, EPADebris in Bahawalpur in Pakistan's Punjab province
Image source, EPARuins remain of the Bilal Mosque in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir
Image source, EPABuildings in Kotli were also destroyed
Image source, EPAA car flattened in Bahawalpur
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is about to address the nation following India's strikes.
A statement from his office says he will speak at 21:30 local time (17:30 BST).
We'll be listening in and will update you on what he says. Stay with us.
By Matt Murphy, Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh
Image source, ReutersIndia's strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir have unleashed a wave of misinformation online, with unrelated videos purporting to be from the strikes gaining millions of views.
Dramatic clips debunked by BBC Verify have claimed to show attacks on an Indian army base and an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan.
One video, which had more than 400,000 views on X at the time of writing, claiming to show an explosion caused by a Pakistani response was actually from the 2020 Beirut Port explosion in Lebanon.
An expert told BBC Verify that in moments of heightened tension or dramatic events, misinformation is more likely to spread and fuel distrust and hostility.
Soutik Biswas
India Correspondent
The majority of experts agree that a retaliation from Pakistan is inevitable - and diplomacy will come into play.
"Pakistan will be getting advice to exercise restraint," a former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan, Ajay Bisaria, tells the BBC. "But the key will be the diplomacy after the Pakistani response to ensure that both countries don't rapidly climb the ladder of escalation."
Similarly, Christopher Clary of the University at Albany in the US - who studies South Asia politics - says given the scale of India's strikes, Pakistan is highly likely to respond.
"Doing otherwise essentially would give India permission to strike Pakistan whenever Delhi feels aggrieved and would run contrary to the Pakistan military's commitment to retaliating with 'quid pro quo plus'," he adds.
Meanwhile, Pakistani Lahore-based political and military analyst Ejaz Hussain, tells the BBC that while India's strikes were "largely anticipated", he worries that surgical strikes on both sides could "escalate into a limited conventional war".
Image source, EPAThe EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, says she is concerned about the rising tensions between India and Pakistan.
She tells reporters that the bloc is trying to "mediate and bring the tensions down" ahead of an informal meeting of European foreign ministers in Warsaw.
Meanwhile, Spain's Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares says "peace, diplomacy and restraint must prevail" in a post on X.
We’ve just heard from Nalin Kohli, the national spokesman for India's governing party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who defended the strikes.
"Nobody wants a war," he tells the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.
But, he adds, India will not “stay away from protecting [the] rights” of its citizens and “ensuring that Indian blood is not spilled…in a power game, based on a network that supports terrorists or breeds terrorists”.
He says India only struck sites that he claims are "directly associated with terrorist groups", and did not target "anything to do with the Pakistani military".
Following the strikes launched by India overnight, many living near the Line of Control (LoC) - the de facto border between India and Pakistan - are fleeing with their belongings.
The pictures below document families leaving the villages Suchetgarh and Jeora Farm, in Indian-administered Kashmir, in carts and makeshift trailers.
Image source, Reuters
Image source, ReutersThe University of Kashmir in the city of Srinagar - in Indian-administered Kashmir - says it is postponing all exams scheduled up to and including 10 May.
In a statement posted to the university website, the assistant controller of examinations adds: "Fresh dates for the postponed papers shall be notified separately."
Image source, EVN/DoordarshanIndia's Minister of State for External Affairs has said "the whole country is happy that we took revenge" after the strikes on Pakistan.
"Our country gave a befitting reply to those who killed innocent people and widowed women," Kirti Vardan Singh tells reporters, referencing the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam last month.
For context: India has said it has evidence linking Pakistan-based "terrorists" to the attack - a claim Pakistan denies.
He warns that "enemy countries" should take the strikes as a "message" that India has "information around every corner", after Islamabad reported that six locations were hit.
"If we have to take such more action in future, we will do so with more strength," he adds.
Emily Atkinson
Live editor
The latest:
Audio captured explosions near the city of Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, last night
The background:
A fuel tank in Pampore
By Shruti Menon and Tom Spencer
BBC Verify has been looking at footage purporting to show pieces of debris from Indian aircraft involved in the strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
One video, purportedly from the Pampore area of Indian-administered Kashmir, shows the remains of a fighter jet drop tank being removed by a digger. These fuel tanks can be jettisoned in flight so do not necessarily indicate that any plane was downed.
Another video shows a piece of a drop tank, again in the Pampore area of Indian-administered Kashmir.
Experts at Janes, the defence intelligence firm, believe this particular tank is typically carried by Dassault Mirage 2000 aircraft, which are operated by the Indian Air Force.
Another video post, external also claims to show the wreckage of an unidentified missile near to Aklian Kalan village of Bathinda, Punjab, India.
Justin Crump, a former British Army Officer who runs the risk intelligence company Sibylline, says the debris appears to show the wreckage of a French air-to-air missile of a type used on both Mirage 2000 and Rafale fighter jets - both of which are operated by the Indian Air Force.
All of Pakistan’s airports remain fully operational, the country’s aviation authority says.
The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) adds that the country’s airspace is also open and "secure for civil aviation activities".
"Pakistan has formally conveyed its concerns to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding the serious risks posed to civil aviation safety by India's reckless and provocative actions," the statement says.
Aamir Peerzada
Reporting from Salamabad
Bashir Ahmad, a shopkeeper in Salamabad. He tells the BBC he hasn’t seen such shelling since 1998.
The BBC reached the Line of Control (LoC) in the village of Salamabad, Uri, just a few kilometres from the de facto border in Indian-administered Kashmir, where several artillery shells landed this morning.
Several residents were injured and taken to Baramulla Hospital.
Salamabad has turned into a ghost town. We hardly saw any civilians in the village, and there was no one to tell us the story of what happened during the cross-border shelling.
Houses are still burning, chickens remain locked in their shelters, but no one is left to recount the horror and destruction.
In a far corner of the village, we met a resident Bashir Ahmad, who hadn’t left. He said 85% of the village’s population had fled for safety.
This town is no stranger to cross-border shelling. It was regularly reported until 2021, when India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire, and life returned to normal, free of fear—until this morning.
Now, uncertainty looms once again.
Image source, Pakistan's PM Office/Getty ImagesPakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has told the parliament that his country's forces shot down five Indian aircraft, according to reports in Pakistani media.
He says two of them came down in Kashmir and one in India’s Bathinda.
Sharif's comments echo earlier claims from Pakistan's military. India hasn’t commented on this claim.