The death toll from Indian air strikes and border firing on Pakistan rose to 31 on Wednesday, the country’s military said.
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“The death toll has climbed to 31 and 57 others have been wounded,” Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a televised address.
India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier Wednesday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades.
India said there were at least 12 dead from Pakistani shelling.
The fighting came two weeks after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for backing an attack on the Indian-run side of disputed Kashmir, which Pakistan denied.
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The South Asian neighbours have fought multiple wars over the divided territory since they were carved out of the subcontinent after gaining independence from British rule in 1947.
The Indian army said “justice is served”, reporting nine “terrorist camps” had been destroyed, with New Delhi adding that its actions “have been focused, measured and non-escalatory”.