Pakistan authorises ‘corresponding’ retaliation after India missile strike kills 26

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Pakistan has authorised its military to take “corresponding” retaliatory action against India after an overnight missile attack by the Indian air force killed 26 across Pakistan, raising fears of an escalating conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries. In a strongly worded statement, Pakistan accused India of “igniting an inferno” 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. India said the strikes were a direct retaliation for an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir late last month, in which militants targeted and killed 25...