An Indian missile attack on Pakistani-controlled territory has killed eight people, Pakistan officials have said.

A Pakistan military spokesman has told Reuters that his country’s air defences have shot down five Indian planes in retaliation.

He added there had been exchanges of fire with Indian troops at multiple places along the ceasefire line in Kashmir.

Locations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and in the country’s eastern Punjab province were hit in the Indian missile attack, according to Pakistani officials.

Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar told Sky News’ The World With Yalda Hakim that his country would do all it could to defend its territory – as tensions escalate even further between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

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