Addressing the nation on Thursday evening, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif framed India's overnight attack as "cowardly" and commended the Pakistan army's downing of five Indian fighter jets during a confrontation over the Line of Control, NBC News reports.

India has not confirmed that its fighter jets were shot down. Sharif has called it Pakistan's "crushing response" to the attack. "We will definitely stand against [India] and win," he added. Also, Sharif reiterated that Pakistan was not involved in the attack that killed 26 people in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month.

Relations between India and Pakistan have strained since April 22, when 26 people were killed in a terror attack in Pahalgam town in the Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir region.