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OPERATION SINDOOR

INDIA

RATTLES PAK

As India hits terror and military targets deep inside Pakistan, the neighboring

country attacks civilians, uses civilian flights as shields and launches a

disinformation campaign. Has Pakistan lost the plot?

OUR BUREAU
New Delhi
n an unprecedented move on
Wednesday, The Indian Armed
IForces launched Operation Sin-
door, a targeted strike mission to de-
stroy terrorist infrastructure in Paki-
stan and PoK in response to the April
22 Pahalgam terror attack.
The information was shared in
the media briefing consisting of for-
eign secretary Vikram Misri, Wing
Commander Vyomika Singh and Col
Sophiya Qureshi. While speaking to
the media, Wing Commander Vyomi-
ka Singh who briefed the media along
with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri
and Col Sofiya Qureshi said that the
‘Operation Sindoor’ was launched to
deliver justice to the victims of the Pa-
halgam terror attack and their families.
A total of nine terror sites were
targeted and successfully destroyed.
She asserted that the locations were
selected so that there was no damage
to civilians and their infrastructures. Members of the media film the inside of a building after it was hit by an Indian strike in Bahawalpur on Wednesday (REUTERS/ANI)
“Operation Sindoor was launched by
the Indian Armed Forces to deliver
justice to the victims of the Pahalgam perpetrators of 2008 Mumbai attacks on 7 May at 08:30 hours in the eve- Punjab sector. Singh pointed out that
terror attack and their families. Nine received training. ning. Pakistan is using civil airliner while India’s airspace was closed due
terrorist camps were targeted and Two days later, Wing Command- as a shield, knowing fully well that its to the heightened alert, Pakistan al-
successfully destroyed... The locations er Vyomika Singh exposed Pakistan’s attack on India would elicit a swift air lowed civil airlines to continue flying,
were so selected to avoid damage to airspace tactics, saying that Islamabad defense response,” she said on Friday, including those on the Karachi-La-
civilian infrastructures and loss of any deliberately kept its civil airspace open adding that this decision endangered hore route.
civilian lives”, Wing Commander Vyo- after launching a “failed unprovoked unsuspecting civil airliners, including Further, in response to the Pa-
mika Singh said. drone” and missile attack on Wednes- international flights operating near kistani attack, armed drones were
During the press briefing, Col day, effectively using civil airliners as the India-Pakistan border. launched at four air defense sites in
Sofiya Qureshi presented the videos shields. During the briefing on Friday, the Pakistan. One of the drones was able
of destruction of terror camps, in- A “Pakistan did not close its civil Wing Commander showed the data of to destroy an Air Defense radar on
cluding from the Muridke and where airspace despite it launching a failed the application flight radar 24 during Thursday. In a major escalation along
David Headley and Ajmal Kasab, unprovoked drone and missile attack a high air defense alert situation in the Continued on next page... >>

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