On the night of May 6–7, the Indian military carried out coordinated missile, air, and drone strikes across six Pakistani cities — Sialkot, Shakargarh, Muridke, Bahawalpur, Kotli, and Muzaffarabad — targeting what it claimed were terrorist camps. The Pakistan government strongly rejected these claims, calling them “false pretexts” and highlighting its prior openness to international inspections and media visits.
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The deadliest attack occurred in Bahawalpur’s Ahmedpur Sharqi, where 13 civilians, including two toddlers and seven women, were killed. In Kotli and Muzaffarabad, Indian strikes damaged two mosques — Bilal Mosque and Abbas Mosque — resulting in the deaths of teenagers and injuries to multiple children.
Along the Line of Control (LoC), Indian shelling killed five more civilians, including a five-year-old child, further escalating tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
