India has suspended flight operations at 24 airports in the north and west due to heightened tensions with Pakistan, according to the Washington Post.

The Civil Aviation Ministry confirmed the temporary closures, affecting key hubs like Amritsar and Srinagar.

Major airlines, including IndiGo and Air India, cancelled over 160 flights. Air India also diverted two international flights from Amritsar to New Delhi following the sudden airport shutdown.

Indian cricket will decide what happens to the rest of the IPL season, a senior official said, after deadly confrontations between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.

An Indian Premier League match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals in Dharamsala -- less than 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the town of Jammu, where explosions were reported hours earlier -- was abandoned Thursday because of apparent floodlight failure.

Sunday's game between Punjab and Mumbai Indians, which had been due to take place in Dharamsala, has been moved.

Pakistan's armed forces launched "multiple attacks" using drones and other munitions along India's entire western border on Thursday night and early Friday, the Indian army said, as conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours intensified.

There was no immediate response from Pakistan to the Indian statement.

Pakistan's ambassador to the US has said that India and Pakistan have had contacts at the level of their respective National Security Councils, when asked if the two South Asian neighbours had any ongoing lines of conversation.

The ambassador, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, made the comments in an interview with CNN in which he also said the responsibility to de-escalate tensions between the two countries lay with India after two days of clashes.

"I think there have been contact at the level of NSCs, but then this escalation, both in terms of the actions that have been taken and in terms of rhetoric that is coming out, has to stop," Sheikh said in the interview without giving more details about the contacts.

"Now the responsibility for de-escalation is on India, but there are constraints on restraint. Pakistan reserves the right to respond back. There is enough pressure from our public opinion on the government to respond," he added.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov has held a phone call with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar to discuss the rising tensions between Pakistan and India, according to the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.

Dar briefed Bayramov on Indian missile attacks on Pakistan from May 6-7, saying the strikes primarily hit civilian areas and resulted in dozens of deaths.

Dar also informed Bayramov about his diplomatic outreach to various countries to explain the unfolding situation, according to the statement. Bayramov expressed his condolences for the civilian casualties and reaffirmed Azerbaijan's solidarity with the people of Pakistan.

US Vice President JD Vance has said that Washington wanted to see a "de-escalation" in a worsening conflict between India and Pakistan, but that it was "fundamentally none of our business."

"What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not going to get involved in the middle of a war that's fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it," said Vance, who has been a proponent of US disengagement from international conflicts, in an interview with Fox News.

Pakistan says it downed at least five Indian jets, including three Rafales, in an hour-long battle that experts say involved some 30 Pakistani and 70 Indian fighter aircraft.

Pakistan's T20 cricket league will be relocated to the United Arab Emirates, officials said, after new Indian attacks on the country including a drone that reached Rawalpindi stadium.

Pakistan's army "neutralised" 28 Indian drones, including one near the city's stadium on Thursday morning, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said.

He called it "a deliberate attempt to target domestic and foreign cricket players".

"Pakistan Cricket Board confirms that the remaining matches of the Pakistan Super League has been shifted to the UAE," read a PCB release, which added that the schedule would be updated in due course.

The decision was reached after several meetings between the franchise and the PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who is also the country's interior minister. Former champions Karachi Kings and Peshawar Zalmi were due to play at Rawalpindi stadium on Thursday but the match was postponed after a drone fell close to the stadium.

Thirty-seven foreign players including from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are involved in the League.

India has ordered X to block more than 8,000 accounts, the platform has said, adding that it was reluctantly complying with what it described as government-imposed "censorship."

The move appears to be part of India's sweeping crackdown targeting social media accounts of Pakistani politicians, celebrities and media organisations amid heightened tensions and deadly confrontations between the two neighbours.

The order, which X said includes demands to block international news organisations and other prominent users, comes a day after Meta banned a prominent Muslim news page on Instagram in India at New Delhi's request.

"X has received executive orders from the Indian government requiring X to block over 8,000 accounts in India, subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company's local employees," the site's global government affairs team said in a statement.

The French aviation giant's value dropped from $373.8 to $362.05 after Pakistan claimed to have shot down multiple Indian Rafale fighter jets.