Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 9 (ANI): Telangana Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy on Friday referred to the Pahalgam terror attack as one of the most barbaric incidents and stated that Pakistan's misadventure will cost them dearly.

Speaking to ANI, Reddy said, 'Pakistan's misadventure will cost them very dearly. In one of the most barbaric and inhuman terror attacks, what happened in Pahalgam was a shocker to everyone in the civilised world... It was highly justified that India launched attacks on the terror camps. The Indian Armed Forces did an outstanding job with the strikes on the terror camps in PoK and Pakistan.'

Minister Reddy warned Pakistan that further escalation could lead to a full-fledged war and urged them to back off, avoid potential decimation and division.

'There is a steady escalation, and any further escalation will lead to a full-fledged war that will lead to the decimation and division of Pakistan as a country. I don't think it will remain even a district. So it will be wiser for them to back off,' Minister Reddy told ANI.

Tensions escalated between India and Pakistan after the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of Wednesday (May 7th), targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK).

This operation was a retaliatory response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which resulted in the deaths of 26 civilians, including one Nepali national.

Operation Sindoor is one of the deepest strikes carried out by India inside Pakistan's undisputed territory since 1971, successfully targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. This marks New Delhi's most significant military action within Pakistani territory in over five decades.

Earlier on Thursday, the Indian Army had shot down more than 50 Pakistani drones during a large-scale counter-drone operation along the LoC and International Borders (IB), sources told ANI.

The Indian Armed Forces also successfully neutralised Pakistan military's attempts at a large-scale drone and missile attack on multiple Indian military installations across Northern and Western India during the night of May 7-8, and an Air Defence system at Lahore was neutralised. (ANI)