India said "the threat was neutralised ... with kinetic and non-kinetic means"
The violent crisis between India and Pakistan is exactly the kind of international emergency that would once have prompted a full-on US diplomatic drive to cool tempers and head off a wider war.
Blackouts enforced in border districts
Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged de-escalation and expressed support for direct dialogue in separate calls with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said
Devi, a daily labourer, had recently come along with 15 relatives from Bihar, one of India's poorest regions, for employment in the village of Akhnoor near Jammu, in the Indian-administered part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir
An Indian Air Force spokesperson said he had no comment when asked about the Reuters report
Sirens ring out in Jammu, projectiles in night sky; Islamabad says Indian drones earlier entered its airspace
Today's Star Explains is on how the web of misinformation is being spread around the conflict, and who is fuelling it
"This cowardly attack is a sign of India's worry and panic," Pakistan ISPR said in a statement
Pakistan's army said it shot down 25 Indian drones, while New Delhi accused Islamabad of launching overnight raids with "drones and missiles", and claimed it destroyed an air defence system in Lahore
India's government said Thursday that Pakistan launched an overnight air attack using "drones and missiles", before New Delhi retaliated to destroy an air defence system in Lahore
Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to retaliate after India launched deadly missile strikes
This was the second time that top government functionaries and opposition leaders met
It comes a day after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in two decades.
Pakistan Airports Authority said in a statement
The nuclear-armed rivals experienced their worst violence in two decades on Wednesday
