The back and forth came a day after Indian missilesstruck several locationsin Pakistan, killing 31 civilians, according to Pakistani officials.

In Salamabad close to the Line of Control, the BBC found homes destroyed by intense shelling.

In Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, a road, normally busy with tourists and travellers, lies deserted.

An Indian air strike damaged a mosque and some houses Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

The BBC spoke to eyewitnesses in both Indian and Pakistan administered Kashmir

They fought two wars over it and are nuclear armed - but what's at the root of the dispute?

India launched strikes in the early hours of Wednesday - two weeks after a deadly militant attack.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday, an assault its neighbour called a "blatant act of war" as tension spirals between the nuclear-armed rivals after a deadly attack on tourists in Indian Kashmir

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said it attacked nine sites in Pakistan including in the disputed territory of Kashmir on Wednesday in response to the killing of 26 people, mostly tourists, on its part of Kashmir last month that it blamed on Pakistan

Footage obtained by Associated Press shows rubble and destruction thought to be in Muzaffarabad.

Pakistans Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned Wednesday's airstrikes and said his country would retaliate against the 'cowardly attacks' carried out by the 'deceitful enemy.'

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India attacked nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday with at least three deaths reported, and Pakistan said it was mounting a response as the worst fighting in years erupted between the longstanding enemies

(Reuters) - The Indian armed forces launched "Operation Sindoor," hitting nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the government said in a statement on Wednesday

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India has advanced the start date of four under-construction hydropower projects in the Kashmir region by months after suspending a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan that had slowed progress, according to an industry source and a government document

Himanshi Narwal's husband was among the victims of the deadly militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir.

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said on Tuesday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India has begun work to boost reservoir holding capacity at two hydroelectric projects in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, after fresh tension with Pakistan led it to suspend a water-sharing pact

India accuses Pakistan of supporting militants behind the Kashmir attack, which Islamabad denies

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged gunfire for a second straight day on Saturday as ties plummeted between the two nuclear-armed neighbours after an attack on tourists blamed on Pakistani militants killed 26 in India's Kashmir region

(Reuters) - Pakistan believes an international investigation is needed into the killing of 26 men at a tourist spot in Indian Kashmir this week and is willing to work with international investigators, the New York Times reported on Friday, quoting Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif

After a deadly militant attack in Kashmir, India suspended a key water treaty with neighbouring Pakistan.

Tourists are returning home after a deadly gun attack killed 26 visitors in Indian-administered Kashmir

And, tensions rise between India and Pakistan after Kashmir attack.

It comes after Delhi's retaliatory measures following a militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India has summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, local media reported on Thursday, a day after it announced measures to downgrade ties with Islamabad as relations between the nuclear-armed rivals plummeted following a deadly militant attack in Kashmir

India will respond but it's not clear how - or at what cost, experts say

Visas held by some Pakistanis are also cancelled after gunmen killed tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Families are mourning loved ones killed by gunmen in one of India's most popular tourist destinations.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) -Twenty-six people were killed and 17 were injured when suspected militants opened fire at tourists in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory, police said on Wednesday, the worst such attack in the country in nearly two decades

NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his Saudi Arabia visit on Tuesday (April 22) following a terror attack in the Jammu and Kashmir region

The region's chief minister said the attack was "much larger than anything we've seen directed at civilians in recent years".

Two senior police officers said at least four gunmen, whom they described as militants, fired at dozens of tourists from close range