Pakistan authorises 'corresponding' retaliation after India missile strike kills 26

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…