New Delhi: India responded on Saturday to the Pakistani military's "provocative" and "escalatory" actions in a measured way and Islamabad is resorting to a wanton campaign of targeting innocent people and civilian infrastructure in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said.
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As the military conflict between the two neighbours escalated, Misri said at a media briefing here that Pakistan's claims of destroying various places and military installations in India are "completely false".
The Indian and Pakistani militaries targeted each other's installations using missiles in the last over 12 hours, further escalating the already tense conflict situation.
The foreign secretary said the Pakistani claims about destroying the Sirsa and Surat air force stations are "completely false".
"There is a claim that has been made that the S-400 base at Adampur was destroyed, completely false, once again," he said.
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"Claims made about large sections of Indian critical infrastructure, power systems, cyber systems etc. being attacked and destroyed are completely false," he said.
The foreign secretary said Pakistan is peddling these lies for "obvious purposes".
"Pakistan continues with its execrable and wanton campaign of targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, especially in the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab," he said.
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