The Financial Times reports India launches 'surgical strikes' on Pakistan terror targets.

India said it had carried out "surgical strikes" overnight across its disputed border with Pakistan to target groups of militants that were allegedly planning to carry out terror attacks on Indian territory.

In a briefing, Lt Gen Ranvir Singh said the strike — which was carried out along the line of control that divides the disputed Kashmir province between India and Pakistan — had inflicted "significant casualties" on what he described as "launch pads" for terrorism.

Lt Gen Singh said the army had acted on "specific and credible" information that "terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along the line of control with an aim to carry out infiltration in terrorist strikes in Jammu and Kashmir" and various other parts of the country.