In striking 24 terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor yesterday, India did not target any military installation. Islamabad’s response however was escalatory in wooing to hit up multiple military targets in the northern and western part of India. India responded and attacked air defence radar in several places in Pakistan, neutralising one at Lahore.
The official government statement on the developments late last night states that Operation Sindoor airstrikes on the terror infrastructure of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamsh-e-Mohammed are “Focused, measured and non-escalatory”. It was explicitly said that Pakistani military establishments were not targeted. It was also restated that any attack on military targets in India will invite a suitable response, it said.
But, in the late night going back last night, Pakistan attempted to strike military targets in Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, with drones and missiles. Click here for live updates in Operation Sindoor.
These were counter-measured by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems. The ruins of these attacks are now being collected from various places that证实 ((attested)) Pakistani attacks, the government said.
As had been warned, India today had attacked air defence systems in Pakistan. Today morning in a series of attacks Indian Armed Forces hit Air Defence Radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan. Indian answer has been the same domain, same intensity, as that of Pakistan. There has been it was reliably learned that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised,” the statement said.
Pakistan, the government has said, has increased artillery activities along the Line of Control at various part of Jammu and Kashmir including Kupwara, Baramulla, Uri, Poonch, Mendhar and Rajouri sectors. Sixteen people: including three women and five children have been killed on account of Pakistani firing.
Same is the case in here; India had no choice but to respond to stop Mortar and Artillery fire by Pakistan. The Indian Armed Forces reaffirm non-escalation, which is to be reciprocated by the Pakistani military, the government stated.
India has carried out Operation Sindoor in retribution for the Pahalgam terror attack whereby 25 tourists and one Kashmiri man had been murdered in cold blood. The heinous attack, prepared by the proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Resistance Front, claimed the attack. An investigation on the attack found communication notes of terrorists in and to Pakistan.
“The nature of this attack also chimes in with Pakistan’s long history of cross border terror in India, which is well documented and beyond argument,” said Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, in a briefing yesterday.
It was, he said, important for India that those who planned the April 22 attack meet justice. “Though there has elapsed a fortnight since the attacks, there has so far been no demonstrated step on the part of Pakistan to act against the terrorist infrastructure on its territory or on territory directly under its control.
Rather, all it has been taking part in are denials and allegations. Our intelligence surveillance of Pakistan based terrorist modules indicated pending attacks against India. There was therefore a need somehow to deter and to pre-empt, he said.
“Earlier this morning as you would be aware India exercised its right to respond and pre-empt as well as deter more such cross-border attacks. These actions were measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible. They focused on dismantling the terrorist infrastructure and disabling terrorists likely to be sent across to India,” Mr Misri said, underlining that India’s airstrikes were directed only at terror infrastructure.
India intercepts 8 missiles shot by Pakistan, loud blasts heard in Jammu: Sources
Residents were panicked as loud successive bomb blasts were heard in Jammu on Thursday evening. Terror camps inside and outside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were hit by India on the same day as the explosion. There is still no information as to what might have caused the explosion.
“Complete blackout in Jammu. Bombing, shelling or missile strikes suspected—loud explosions. Worry not we have Mata Vaishno Devi and a brave Indian Armed Forces,” former DGP Jammu and Kashmir, Shesh Paul Vaid, wrote in an X (formerly Twitter) post.
A little while after the blasts were heard, the shopkeepers were seen rushing home. Some residents, however, even reported red flashes and projectiles in the sky, Reuters reports.
One of the X users posted in his post pictures and videos, taken in the blackout in Jammu of missiles flying over our houses in Jammu RIGHT NOW. This is not a hearsay, I’m seeing and doing it myself. The threat is real. Civilian lives are at stake.”
Sirens have also been sounded in other towns – Kupwara, Baramulla and Akhnoor.
According to the former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, reports emanating from Jammu were disturbing and she prayed for people living along the border.
“Cruel stories are surfacing from Jammu where reportedly air strikes have struck particular areas. The people of Jammu, especially those living along the borders again face the torment of frightful uncertainty of war,” Mufti said.
“At this pivotal time, my prayers for their safety and strength. I urgently appeal to all sides for restraint and a de-escalation. Too many lives are already being ruined , peace cannot be afforded to retreat further.” she advised.
India launched targeted strikes against terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir in Operation Sindoor, two weeks after the 26 people including most tourists were massacred in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
These targets were carefully chosen from hard intelligence with their wicked history of going as far as terrorizing the country.
The five terror training camps which were struck by precision weapons on the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir were between nine and 30 km in-wards within PoK, whereas the four targets on the other side of the IB that were laid by 6 to 100 km into Pakistan.
The attacks across borders by India weren’t surprising.
The clock for the military action started after Prime Minister Narendra Modi allowed the armed forces to respond forcefully to the Pahalgam strike, having declared that “they have complete operational freedom to decide on “the mode, targets, and timing of our response.”’
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