The blasts came after blackouts triggered by projectiles observed in the sky above the nearby city of Jammu earlier on Friday.

We couldn’t do anything.”So began one of the most extraordinary periods in the modern history of Kashmir, a region in the shadow of the Himalayas controlled by three nuclear-armed states: India to the south,

Blasts rang out across Indian Kashmir and the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in neighbouring Punjab state late on Friday, with the Indian military saying it was shooting down drones in the worst fighting with Pakistan in nearly three decades.