Pakistan and India hinted at de-escalating their current conflict after firing missiles at each other hours earlier.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan’s air defense system shot down a drone early Thursday near a naval air base in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistani police and security officials said, as India evacuated thousands of people villages near the two country’s highly militarized frontier in the disputed region of Kashmir.

India’s missile and bomb strikes on targets in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir have prompted multiple attacks in retaliation between the nuclear-armed neighbors to the point that some are no