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In response to the Pahalgam assaults, India carried out precision strikes on 9 terrorist websites in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir below ‘Operation Sindoor’. The strikes come nearly two weeks after the barbaric terrorist assault in Pahalgam.
New Delhi:
The Indian Military, Navy and the Air Drive, in a historic tri-services operation, carried out precision strikes at 1:44 am on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam assault wherein 26 civilians have been killed on April 22. Sources informed NDTV that Prime Minister Narendra Modi consistently monitored the operation.
India struck bases in Pakistan and PoK from the place terrorist assaults have been being deliberate and directed. A complete of 9 websites have been focused within the in a single day precision strikes below the codename ‘Operation Sindoor’.
India mentioned, “Our actions have been targeted, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani navy services have been focused. India has demonstrated appreciable restraint in choice of targets and methodology of execution.” “We live as much as the dedication that these chargeable for this assault will likely be held accountable.”
Sources recommend the motion was a part of Section 1 of India’s response to the Pahalgam assault, and extra would observe primarily based on Pakistan’s retaliation.
In retaliation, Pakistan resorted to cross-border firing at Indian villages alongside the Line of Management, killing three harmless civilians.
Pakistan’s DG ISPR, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, mentioned India struck websites in Kotli, Muridke, Bahawalpur, Chak Amru, Bhimber, Gulpur, Sialkot and two websites in Muzaffarabad.
Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Chak Amru and Muridke are situated throughout the worldwide border and the remainder throughout the Line of Management in PoK.
Muridke is the headquarters of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is run by Hafiz Saeed, and Bahalwapur in Pakistan’s Punjab province is the bottom of Jaish-e-Mohammad, an outfit run by Masood Azhar.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has mentioned, “Pakistan has each proper to reply forcefully to this act of battle imposed by India, and a forceful response is being given.”
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India didn’t point out the identify of the websites it focused throughout ‘Operation Sindoor’.
The strikes come nearly two weeks after the barbaric terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, wherein terrorists from Pakistan shot lifeless 26 civilians in a vacationer spot.
Learn extra: Operation Sindoor: What We Know About India’s Strike On Pak Terror Bases
“Justice Is Served, Jai Hind”
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh wrote “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” on his X deal with. Minutes after India introduced that it carried out the strikes, the Indian Military posted on X and mentioned, “Justice is served. Jai Hind.”
Justice is Served.
Jai Hind! pic.twitter.com/Aruatj6OfA
— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) May 6, 2025
In response to the strikes, Pakistan has opened artillery fireplace alongside the Line of Management within the Bhimber Gali within the Poonch-Rajauri space, the Indian Military mentioned. The troops are “responding appropriately in a calibrated method,” they added.
Pakistan once more violates the Ceasefire Settlement by firing Artillery in Bhimber Gali in Poonch- Rajauri space.#IndianArmy is responding appropriately in a caliberated method. pic.twitter.com/Bo7Cf8ISzn
— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) May 6, 2025
Sources informed NDTV that SCALP (Storm Shadow) cruise missiles have been used within the assaults. These missiles, developed collectively by France and Britain, are geared up with the Rafale fighters of the Indian Air Drive. Sources added that, together with SCALP, Hammer Sensible Bombs have been additionally used within the strikes.
The Indian Embassy in america mentioned Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval spoke to his US counterpart and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the strikes, briefing them about India’s navy operation.
US President Donald Trump reacted to India’s navy motion towards terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and mentioned the US knew one thing was going to occur and that he hoped “it ends in a short time”.
Flight Ops, NOTAM, Air Drive’s Struggle Recreation
Flight operations have been impacted following the stress alongside the border. IndiGo, in a press release, informed passengers that “Resulting from altering airspace circumstances within the area”, operations have been impacted at Srinagar, Jammu, Amritsar, and operations are affected in Chandigarh and Dharamsala. IndiGo requested passengers to test their flight standing. The same advisory was issued by SpiceJet as properly.
Air India mentioned it has cancelled all flights to and from Jammu, Srinagar, Leh, Jodhpur, Amritsar, Bhuj, Jamnagar, Chandigarh, and Rajkot until midday. Two worldwide flights on their approach to Amritsar have been diverted to Delhi, it mentioned.
The Srinagar airport has been closed, and no civilian flight will likely be working at the moment, sources within the Indian Air Drive informed NDTV.
The Indian Air Drive has deliberate a two-day navy drill in Rajasthan alongside the worldwide border with Pakistan. The drills or battle video games will start at 9:30 pm at the moment and finish at 3 am on Friday. A NOTAM or discover to airmen has been issued, ceasing all flight operations over a big space of the Thar desert.
India points a NOTAM for a pretty big air train alongside the southern part of its border with Pakistan
Date 07-08 Might 2025 pic.twitter.com/1TnccuRQ54— Damien Symon (@detresfa_) May 6, 2025
The strikes come hours earlier than a deliberate safety mock drill throughout the nation for “efficient civil defence within the occasion of a hostile assault”. It’s deliberate in 244 districts, and it is the primary such drill being held since 1971, the yr wherein each international locations went to battle and Pakistan was cut up into two and Bangladesh was shaped.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had vowed to take vengeance for the worst-ever assault in Jammu and Kashmir since Pulwama in 2019.
In 2016, India carried out precision surgical strikes on terror launch pads throughout the Line of Management in PoK, nearly 10 days after the Uri assaults wherein 4 Jaish terrorists from Pakistan entered a brigade headquarters and killed 16 troopers.
On February 14, 2019, a vehicle-borne suicide bomber from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed focused a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Drive (CRPF) in Pulwama, killing 40 troopers. India responded with pressure, and the Indian Air Drive struck terror camps in Balakot, throughout the worldwide border in Pakistan. This was the primary time because the 1971 battle, the IAF crossed the worldwide border for navy motion.
It was adopted by Pakistan scrambling jets, and in an aerial dogfight, the Air Drive’s MiG-21, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan, shot down a superior US-made fourth-generation F-16 fighter plane.
Wing Commander Abhinandan was captured by Pakistan however was launched a number of days later.
First Diplomatic Measures, Then Army Motion
The Prime Minister has chaired a number of conferences because the Pahalgam assault. Yesterday, hours earlier than the strikes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval. On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh for greater than half an hour amid hypothesis over how New Delhi would reply to the assault.
This assembly occurred a day after the Prime Minister met Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. The Prime Minister later met the chiefs of the Military, Navy, and Air Drive.
Earlier than taking navy motion towards the perpetrators of the Pahalgam assault, India first took diplomatic measures towards Pakistan by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, which was ratified in 1960, together with revoking all visas granted to Pakistani nationals, shutting the Attari border, downsizing the diplomatic workers of Pakistan’s missions in India and shutting the airspace for all plane, together with navy, operated and leased by Pakistan.
Final night time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned the choice to place a freeze on the Indus water treaty that stopped the availability to Pakistan is not going to be reversed, saying, “India’s water will likely be used for India’s pursuits”.
Talking at an ABP Community occasion this night, PM Modi mentioned, “Lately, there may be a number of dialogue within the media about water… Earlier, even the water that was India’s proper was flowing overseas. Now, India’s water will movement for India’s profit, it will likely be conserved for India’s profit, and it will likely be used for India’s progress”.
Pakistan threatened to carry the 1972 Simla Settlement in abeyance following India’s measures. The risk posed a query on the way forward for the Line of Management, which was established after the settlement was signed. In 2003, India and Pakistan signed a ceasefire settlement to ease tensions alongside the navy boundary, however Islamabad has repeatedly violated the settlement.
For the final 12 days, Pakistani troops have opened small arms fireplace alongside the LoC, and India has given a measured response to Pakistan’s repeated violations.
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