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The national spokesman for India's governing party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nalin Kohli has defended the strikes.
"Nobody wants a war," he told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.
But, he added, India will not “stay away from protecting [the] rights” of its citizens and “ensuring that Indian blood is not spilled…in a power game, based on a network that supports terrorists or breeds terrorists”.
He said India only struck sites that he claimed were "directly associated with terrorist groups", and did not target "anything to do with the Pakistani military".