{"id":71597,"date":"2025-05-08T01:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/pakistan-authorises-corresponding-retaliation-after-india-missile-strike-punjab-kashmir"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:30:12","slug":"pakistan-authorises-corresponding-retaliation-after-india-missile-strike-kills-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71597","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan authorises \u2018corresponding\u2019 retaliation after India missile strikes kill 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears raised of escalating conflict after statement accusing India of \u2018igniting an inferno\u2019 in Kashmir and Punjab<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/may\/06\/pakistan-india-attacks-kashmir-live-updates\">Kashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan has authorised its military to take \u201ccorresponding\u201d retaliatory action against India after overnight missile attacks by the Indian air force killed 31 people, raising fears of an escalating conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded statement, Pakistan accused India of \u201cigniting an inferno\u201d in the region after it carried out targeted strikes on nine sites in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the Pakistani province of Punjab in the early hours of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/pakistan-authorises-corresponding-retaliation-after-india-missile-strike-punjab-kashmir\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears raised of escalating conflict after statement accusing India of \u2018igniting an inferno\u2019 in Kashmir and PunjabKashmir crisis live \u2013 latest updatesPakistan has authorised its military to take \u201ccorresponding\u201d retaliatory action against India after ove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71630,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597\/revisions\/71630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}