Here are key reactions

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said India's response was 'non-escalatory and measured'

The western districts of Rajasthan have been placed on high alert

India said it struck nine Pakistani 'terrorist infrastructure' sites, some of them linked to an attack by Islamist militants on tourists that killed 26 people in Indian Kashmir last month

Malaysian Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu said nearly 40 percent of the country's imported rice came from India and Pakistan

Poonch's local revenue officer Azhar Majid told AFP from the town's hospital  that there had been "29 injured and eight deaths"

"We are willing to work together with the international community and continue to play a constructive role in easing the current tensions"

Meanwhile, Indian airlines have cancelled their flights to and from various cities, including Jammu and Srinagar

Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir territory on Wednesday, four local government sources told Reuters, hours after India said it struck nine Pakistani "terrorist infrastructure" sites across the border

Several Asian airlines said on Wednesday they were re-routing or cancelling flights to and from Europe because of fighting between India and Pakistan

Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval briefed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shortly after New Delhi's strikes on Pakistan, the Indian embassy in Washington said Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken with his counterparts from India and Pakistan

'In total in at six locations there were 24 impacts in Pakistan'

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was responding to the Indian attacks but did not provide details

India today said it carried out "precision strikes at terrorist camps" inside Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region

26 killed in Pakistan, 12 in India: reports

"The world cannot afford a military confrontation between India and Pakistan."

The United Nations Security Council has urged India and Pakistan to ease tension and avoid military conflict, Pakistan said yesterday, as hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals surge after a deadly attack on tourists in disputed Kashmir.

Seven Pakistani paramilitary troops were killed and five others wounded yesterday in a homemade bomb attack on a convoy in southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.

Pakistan yesterday conducted a second missile test and India ordered civil defence drills in an escalating stand-off over contested Kashmir that the UN said has brought the two nations to the brink of war.