India on Thursday said its precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir were a "controlled, precise, measured and non-escalatory" response to what it called Pakistan’s “original escalation” in the form of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

Foreign Secretary of India Vikram Misri, at a press briefing on Thursday, addressed the “mention of escalation” by Pakistan and said that the original escalation was the April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam,

The NYT report emphasised India’s official stance, noting that the strikes were “measured, responsible, and designed to be non-escalatory.”