WATCH: J&K CM Omar Abdullah plays cricket with a child in visit to LoC relief camps

Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah was seen on social media enjoying a game of cricket on Friday at a relief camp set up to shelter residents along the Line of Control (LoC) who are at risk of being caught in Pakistan's unprovoked attempts to attack India.

The video, which circulated widely in a bid to spread lighter-hearted news in these troubling times, shows CM Abdullah first observing a child bat, and then having the boy bowl while he batted, much to everyone's amusement.

This came as the National Conference leader visited various relief camps set up for the displaced border residents and hospitals in the Jammu and Samba districts.

On Thursday, CM Abdullah strongly condemned the recent wave of cross-border strikes conducted by Pakistan with drones, missiles and shelling in India's Jammu and Poonch districts—without prior provocation. 

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"We did not create this situation. Our people were attacked in Pahalgam, and innocent civilians were killed. We had to respond," he said, referring to India's strike on terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

Several parts of Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat sounded sirens and enforced blackouts on Thursday night, all through Friday morning, after Pakistan's armed forces launched multiple attacks using drones, missiles and shelling on military infrastructure, along the entire western border. 

The Indian Army declared that that the attacks had been "effectively repulsed". 

Pakistan's attempts to attack India come in the wake of the former's retaliation for Operation Sindoor, which they perceived as India's attack on their civilians, so as to provoke them. MEA India has categorically clarified that the aim has always been to respond proportionally to Pakistan's provocations, so as to defend India, and never to incite attacks unprovoked. 

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